Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, who was born in 1849. When Burnett was just fifteen years old she had to move from industrial Manchester to a rural area of America, following her father’s death. Later in life, Burnett returned to England, where she lived in a country house and spent lots of her time gardening. A walled rose garden became her workroom where, in the late 1800s, she began to write The Secret Garden, a story about a young girl’s journey very similar to her own.