the garden 秘密花园 ppt课件

III. The background
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. 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.
The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was first published in 1911. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been produced.
Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, 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.
In 1907, she returned permanently to the United States, having become a citizen in 1905, and she built a home, completed in 1908, in the Plandome Park section of Plandome Manor on Long Island outside New York City. Her son Vivian was employed in the publishing business and at his request she agreed to be editor for Children's Magazine. Over the next several years she had published in Children's Magazine a number of shorter works. In 1911 she had The Secret Garden published.
II. The author
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Born
Frances Eliza Hodgson
24 ovember 1849
England
Died Children
29 October 1924 (aged 74) United States
She had two boys.
IV. Main characters
Mary: spoilt and with a temper, she is unaffectionate, angry, rude and obstinate.
Dickon has a soft way with animals and a good nature. Eager to absorb his gardening knowledge, Mary lets him into the secret of the garden, which he agrees to keep.
The Secret Garden
outline
I. An introduction II. The author III. Background IV. Major characters V. Plot summary VI. Major themes 6、Major themes
I. An introduction
From the mid-1890s she lived in England at Great Maytham Hall— which had a large garden where she indulged her love for flowers—where she made her home for the next decade, although she continued annual transatlantic trips to the United States. Maytham Hall resembled a feudal manor house which enchanted Burnett.
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy 《方特勒罗伊小爵爷》 (published in 1885-6), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).