Frances Hodgson Burnett

1849-11-23 37 Credits

Biography

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885–1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).

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The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

2020

Novel

6.3

Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with ...

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

2017

Novel

5.2

Steampunk update of the classic tale by Frances Hodgson Burnett, with orphaned teen Mary Lennox discovering the magic and mystery of the secret garden...

The Making of a Lady

The Making of a Lady

2012

Novel

6.1

Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst, a widower pushed into providing an heir by his...

Little Lady

Little Lady

2012

Author

6.2

Nine-year-old streetwalker Emily lives with her widowed mother in 19th century New York. Her life changes abruptly when she learns that she has been a...

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

2003

Novel

4.5

Cedric is an eight year old boy, son of a teacher of music. He is kind and fair, his friends respect him. Once he learns that in a great English mano...

Return to the Secret Garden

Return to the Secret Garden

2000

Characters

5.8
Il ritorno del piccolo Lord

Il ritorno del piccolo Lord

2000

Novel

5.0

As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the child...

The Little Princess

The Little Princess

1997

Novel

1.0

The film is set in 1890s London. Sarah lived happily in India with her father, but when he was drafted into military service he placed Sarah in a boar...

The Little Lord

The Little Lord

1996

Novel

6.1

11-year-old Christian lives with his Italian mother Gioia in poverty on the island of Ischia. His German father died in a rescue mission before Christ...

Cedie

Cedie

1996

Novel

An Earl disowns his son James for marrying Annie, a middle-class woman. The couple leaves England to start a life in New York with their son newborn c...

Sarah... Ang Munting Prinsesa

Sarah... Ang Munting Prinsesa

1995

Novel

7.8

Sarah Crewe is the only daughter of the wealthy Capt. Crewe. They are based in India. However, Sarah is sent by her father to a boarding school in Eng...

A Little Princess

A Little Princess

1995

Novel

7.6

When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended...

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

1994

Original Story

5.9
Writing

Animated TV-film version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's story about a spoiled English orphan who lives in India but is transplanted t...

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

1993

Novel

7.4

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle....

Kuldeepak

Kuldeepak

1990

Original Story

4.0
Writing

Shyam returns from London and Rao Saheb hands him all the business. Janradhan and employee of Raosaheb who eyes his chair creates a rift between the t...

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

1987

Writer

7.6
Writing

When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country ma...

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1980

Novel

7.4

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of D...

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1962

Novel

6.7

Cedric "Ceddie" Errol lives with his mother in poor circumstances in New York. The bright child is popular everywhere he goes. The boy's best friends ...

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

1949

Novel

7.1

When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Mary changes the lives of those she...

The Little Princess

The Little Princess

1939

Novel

6.7

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1936

Novel

6.7

An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfathe...

L'ultimo lord

1926

Novel

The Family Secret

The Family Secret

1924

Novel

6.1

The daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father violently disapproves of. The father, in an excess of pare...

A Lady of Quality

A Lady of Quality

1924

Novel

Clorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde. Clorind...

The Flame of Life

The Flame of Life

1923

Novel

Joan Lowrie and her brutal father, Dan, labor in the English coal mines of the 1870's. Fergus Derrick, a new over-man, attempts to make his workers' l...

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1921

Novel

7.0

An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trus...

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

1919

Novel

A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's estate....

A kis lord

A kis lord

1918

Novel

5.0

The outskirts of New York: Cedrik Errol, 8 years old, lives in miserable conditions with his widowed mother. Refined features, charming demeanour, and...

The Shuttle

The Shuttle

1918

Novel

American heiress Bettina Vanderpoel departs for England to visit her sister Rosalie and her impoverished nobleman husband Sir Nigel Anstruthers. Arriv...

The Fair Barbarian

The Fair Barbarian

1917

Novel

An Englishman who has made his fortune in America decides to return to England.

A Little Princess

A Little Princess

1917

Novel

5.2

Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, s...

Secret Love

1916

Novel

In an English mining town during the 1870's, Joan Lowrie falls in love with Fergus Derrick, the new chief engineer who vows to improve working conditi...

Esmeralda

Esmeralda

1915

Story

Writing

A lost film. Esmeralda, a simple farm girl is in love with country boy David, but her mother yearns for a high society city life. Ore is discovered on...

The Dawn of a Tomorrow

The Dawn of a Tomorrow

1915

Novel

7.0

A young girl who lives in the slums of London, is in love with a thief. She persuades him to give up his life of crime. Meanwhile, an eccentric millio...

The Pretty Sister of Jose

The Pretty Sister of Jose

1915

Writer

Writing

Pepita, a radiant and merry Spanish beauty, and her playful brother Jose, witness their mother, whose faded beauty led her husband to abandon her for ...

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1914

Original Film Writer

Writing

A charming, tender-hearted American boy who adores his mother and promised his dying father that he would always take care of her, turns out to be the...

A Lady of Quality

A Lady of Quality

1913

Theatre Play, Novel

News is received by Sir Jeoffrey, a dissolute roué, whose contempt for the other sex extends even to his own daughters, of the arrival of another fema...