Resting peacefully in a grove at Roslyn Cemetery is the author of The Secret Garden (1911), one of the most famous children’s books of all time. Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-born ...

In temperate climes, autumn is the season for putting gardens to bed. Gardeners tidy away dried leaves and stems, mulch flowerbeds, and tuck tender bulbs of hyacinth, daffodil and tulip under the soil ...

In 1908, Frances Hodgson Burnett, a writer once so poor she couldn’t afford paper and pens, built the home of her dreams on Long Island, a 17-room mansion with a grand pathway along the garden to the ...

Special to the Knoxville News Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee Knoxville is, or should be, widely known for its ties to literature. Many authors, including George Washington Harris, Anne ...

Frances Hodgson Burnett, English-born author of “The Secret Garden,” set her first American novel, “Louisiana,” in Hot Springs. Her title character, Louisiana, a Madison County lass, experiences first ...

A new series, ""Storytime Classics,"" introduces four timeless stories retold by Janet Allison Brown to the picture-book crowd. Full-bleed and spot illustrations carry the stories, with text in large ...

Newcomer Dixie Egerickx plays Mary Lennox in this latest version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic of English children’s literature 'The Secret Garden,' which also stars Colin Firth and Julie ...

The latest adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic teeters between Gothic drama and plant-based magic. Sometimes, it's even good. There’s always been magic in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s “The ...