Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1879–1958) was a British novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children’s novels Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden.
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It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.
—Frances Hodgson Burnett
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
—Frances Hodgson Burnett
Topics: Change
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
—Frances Hodgson Burnett
Topics: Gardening
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