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From: Angelica Carpenter <angelica>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:43:42 -0800
Dear all,
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina's new biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett is coming out this month. Gretchen was the keynote speaker at last year's Burnett conference sponsored by the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at California State University. She will return to Fresno in June as a speaker at the Children's Literature Association Conference, to be held June 10. Here is some information about the book:
Rutgers University Press Announces the Publication of FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT: The Unexpected Life of the Author of ?The Secret Garden?
New Brunswick, NJ ? Hugely successful for adult novels and plays, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849?1924) is remembered most of all for the enormously popular The Secret Garden. FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT: The Unexpected Life of the Author of ?The Secret Garden? (Publication date: April 2004; 400pp.; Cloth, $29.95, 0?35382-1) examines the author?s life with intelligence, sensitivity, and never?fore-published material. It is the first biography to have the full cooperation of Burnett?s descendants and relatives.
Burnett?s life was full of reversals of fortune that mark her work. Following modest beginnings in mid-Victorian Manchester, she arrived in post?Civil War Tennessee at the age of fifteen with her widowed mother and two sisters. Burnett was the breadwinner of the family from the age of seventeen, eventually publishing a total of fifty-two books and writing and producing thirteen plays. She made and spent a fortune in her lifetime, was generous and profligate, yet anxious about money and obsessively hardworking.
Constantly restless and inventive, Burnett?s personal life was as complex as her professional one. Her first marriage to a southern doctor disintegrated as a result of her notorious flirtations and a scandalous affair, and her subsequent marriage to an English doctor turned actor suffered a similar fate. She understood the intensity and loneliness of the thoughtful child, but was herself a largely absent mother of two sons?overwhelmed by guilt when tragedy struck one of them.
A woman of contrasts and paradoxes, this quintessentially British writer was equally at home in the United States, which honored her with a memorial in Central Park. Frances Hodgson Burnett reinvented for herself and for generations to come in both countries the magic and the mystery of the childhood she never had.
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is the author of Carrington, a biography of Dora Carrington, and Black London: Life before Emancipation. She is a professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, and an honorary fellow at the University of Exeter.
Founded in 1936, Rutgers University Press is a non-profit academic publishing house operating under the auspices of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and supported by its Board of Governors. The Press publishes titles in African American studies, Asian American studies, Asian studies, art, cultural studies, environmental studies, film, gay and lesbian studies, health, history, literature, medicine, New Jersey and regional studies, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, science, and women?s studies. Rutgers University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses.
To receive a review copy of this book, please fax your request to Joe Marron at 732D5p39.
Best wishes,
Angelica Carpenter, Curator Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature California State University, Fresno
Received on Tue 30 Mar 2004 07:43:42 PM CST
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:43:42 -0800
Dear all,
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina's new biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett is coming out this month. Gretchen was the keynote speaker at last year's Burnett conference sponsored by the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at California State University. She will return to Fresno in June as a speaker at the Children's Literature Association Conference, to be held June 10. Here is some information about the book:
Rutgers University Press Announces the Publication of FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT: The Unexpected Life of the Author of ?The Secret Garden?
New Brunswick, NJ ? Hugely successful for adult novels and plays, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849?1924) is remembered most of all for the enormously popular The Secret Garden. FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT: The Unexpected Life of the Author of ?The Secret Garden? (Publication date: April 2004; 400pp.; Cloth, $29.95, 0?35382-1) examines the author?s life with intelligence, sensitivity, and never?fore-published material. It is the first biography to have the full cooperation of Burnett?s descendants and relatives.
Burnett?s life was full of reversals of fortune that mark her work. Following modest beginnings in mid-Victorian Manchester, she arrived in post?Civil War Tennessee at the age of fifteen with her widowed mother and two sisters. Burnett was the breadwinner of the family from the age of seventeen, eventually publishing a total of fifty-two books and writing and producing thirteen plays. She made and spent a fortune in her lifetime, was generous and profligate, yet anxious about money and obsessively hardworking.
Constantly restless and inventive, Burnett?s personal life was as complex as her professional one. Her first marriage to a southern doctor disintegrated as a result of her notorious flirtations and a scandalous affair, and her subsequent marriage to an English doctor turned actor suffered a similar fate. She understood the intensity and loneliness of the thoughtful child, but was herself a largely absent mother of two sons?overwhelmed by guilt when tragedy struck one of them.
A woman of contrasts and paradoxes, this quintessentially British writer was equally at home in the United States, which honored her with a memorial in Central Park. Frances Hodgson Burnett reinvented for herself and for generations to come in both countries the magic and the mystery of the childhood she never had.
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is the author of Carrington, a biography of Dora Carrington, and Black London: Life before Emancipation. She is a professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, and an honorary fellow at the University of Exeter.
Founded in 1936, Rutgers University Press is a non-profit academic publishing house operating under the auspices of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and supported by its Board of Governors. The Press publishes titles in African American studies, Asian American studies, Asian studies, art, cultural studies, environmental studies, film, gay and lesbian studies, health, history, literature, medicine, New Jersey and regional studies, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, science, and women?s studies. Rutgers University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses.
To receive a review copy of this book, please fax your request to Joe Marron at 732D5p39.
Best wishes,
Angelica Carpenter, Curator Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature California State University, Fresno
Received on Tue 30 Mar 2004 07:43:42 PM CST
