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- Herausgeber: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885–1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. After her father died in 1852, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 immigrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville, Tennessee. There Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In 1870, her mother died, and in 1872 Frances married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor. The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their two sons were born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C., Burnett then began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o' Lowrie's), was published to good reviews. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess.Burnett enjoyed socializing and lived a lavish lifestyle. Beginning in the 1880s, she began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there, where she wrote The Secret Garden. Her oldest son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1890, which caused a relapse of the depression she had struggled with for much of her life. She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898, married Stephen Townsend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902. A few years later she settled in Nassau County, Long Island, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery.In 1936 a memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in her honour in Central Park's Conservatory Garden. The statue depicts her two famous Secret Garden characters, Mary and Dickon.
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Louisiana
Frances Hodgson Burnett
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
LOUISIANA
CHAPTER II.
WORTH
CHAPTER III.
"HE IS DIFFERENT"
CHAPTER IV.
A NEW TYPE
CHAPTER V.
"I HAVE HURT YOU"
CHAPTER VI.
THE ROAD TO THE RIGHT
CHAPTER VII.
"SHE AINT YERE"
CHAPTER VIII.
"NOTHING HAS HURT YOU"
CHAPTER IX.
"DON'T YE, LOUISIANNY?"
CHAPTER X.
THE GREAT WORLD
CHAPTER XI.
A RUSTY NAIL
CHAPTER XII.
"MEBBE"
CHAPTER XIII.
A NEW PLAN
CHAPTER XIV.
CONFESSIONS
CHAPTER XV.
"IANTHY!"
CHAPTER XVI.
"DON'T DO NO ONE A ONJESTICE"
CHAPTER XVII.
A LEAF
CHAPTER XVIII.
"HE KNEW THAT I LOVED YOU"
CHAPTER I.
LOUISIANA.
Olivia Ferrol leaned back in her chair, her hands folded upon her lap. People passed and repassed her as they promenaded the long "gallery," as it was called; they passed in couples, in trios; they talked with unnecessary loudness, they laughed at their own and each other's jokes; they flirted, they sentimentalized, they criticised each other, but none of them showed any special interest in Olivia Ferrol, nor did Miss Ferrol, on her part, show much interest in them.
She had been at Oakvale Springs for two weeks. She was alone, out of her element, and knew nobody. The fact that she was a New Yorker, and had never before been so far South, was rather against her. On her arrival she had been glanced over and commented upon with candor.
"She is a Yankee," said the pretty and remarkably youthful-looking mother of an apparently grown-up family from New Orleans. "You can see it."
