by Ann Thwaite
Died 29th October 1924.
Bibliography
I have attempted to include every first publication of a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett both in America and England.1 I have not attempted to list the numerous stories and articles which appeared only in magazines. Magazine publication of the books is normally a year earlier.
Title
New York, unless otherwise stated
London
That Lass o’ Lowries
Scribner, 1877
Warne, 1877
Surly Tim and other Stories
Scribner, 1877
Ward Lock, 1877
Robertsons (Toronto), 1877
Theo
Peterson (Philadelphia), 1877
Ward Lock, 1877
Scribner, 1879
Warne, 1877
Dolly
Porter & Coates (Philadelphia), 1877
Roudedge, 1877
retitled as Vagabondia
Scribner, 1883
Osgood (Boston), 1884
Pretty Polly Pemberton
Peterson (Philadelphia), 1877
Routledge, 1878
Earlier Stories (First Series) “Lindsay’s Luck,” etc.
Scribner, 1878
Routledge, 1879
Kathleen
Peterson (Philadelphia), 1878
Roudedge, 1878
Earlier Stories (Second Series) (“Kathleen Mavourneen” and “Pretty Polly Pemberton”)
Scribner, 1878
Chatto, 1879
Miss Crespigny
Peterson (Philadelphia), 1878
Routledge, 1878
Scribner, 1879
A Quiet Life and The Tide on the Moaning Bar
Peterson (Philadelphia), 1878
Roudedge, 1879
Our Neighbour Opposite
Routledge, 1878
Jarl’s Daughter and other stories and other novelettes (adding “Miss Vernon’s Choice”)
Peterson (Philadelphia), 1879
Peterson (Philadelphia), 1882
Natalie and other stories
Warne, 1879
Haworth’s
Scribner, 1879
Macmillan, 1879
Louisiana
Scribner, 1880
Macmillan, 1880
(With That Lass O’ Lowrie’s)
A Fair Barbarian
Osgood (Boston), 1881
Warne, 1881
Through One Administration
Osgood (Boston), 1883
Warne, 1883
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Scribner, 1886
Warne, 1886
A Woman’s Will or Miss Defarge
Lippincott, 1888 (in J. Habberton’s Brueton’s Bayou)
Warne, 1887
Sara Crewe
Scribner, 1888
Fisher Unwin, 1887
Editha’s Burglar
Jordan Marsh (Boston),1888
Sara Crewe and Editha’s Burglar (in one volume)
Warne, 1888
The Fortunes of Philippa Fairfax
Warne, 1888
The Pretty Sister of José
Scribner, 1889
Spencer Blackett, 1889
Little Saint Elizabeth and other stories
Scribner, 1890
Warne, 1890
Children I Have Known (English title)
Giovanni and the Other (U.S)
Scribner, 1892
J. R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1892
Warne?
The Drury Lane Boys’ Club
Moon Press (Washington), 1892
The One I Knew the Best of All
Scribner, 1893
Warne, 1893
The Captain’s Youngest (England)
Piccino and Other Child Stories (U.S)
Scribner, 1894
Warne, 1894
The Two Little Pilgrims’ Progress
Scribner, 1895
Warne, 1895
A Lady of Quality
Scribner, 1896
Warne, 1896
His Grace of Osmonde
Scribner, 1897
Warne, 1897
In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim
Scribner, 1899
Warne, 1899
The Making of a Marchioness
Stokes, 1901
Smith, Elder & Co, 1901
The Methods of Lady Walderhurst
Stokes, 1901
Smith, Elder & Co, 1902
In the Closed Room
McClure, 1905
Hodder, 1904
A Little Princess
Scribner, 1905
Warne, 1905
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
Scribner, 1906
Warne, 1907
The Troubles of Queen Silver-Bell
Century, 1906
Warne, 1907
Racketty Packetty House
Century, 1906
Warne, 1907
The Cozy Lion
Century, 1907
Tom Stacey, 1972
The Spring Cleaning
Century, 1908
Tom Stacey, 1973
The Shuttle
Stokes, 1907
Heinemann, 1907
The Good Wolf
Moffat, 1908
Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday
Moffat, 1909
The Land of the Blue Flower
Moffat, 1909
Putnam, 1912
The Secret Garden
Stokes, 1911
Heinemann, 1911
My Robin
Stokes, 1912
Putnam, 1913
T. Tembarom
Stokes, 1913
Hodder & Stoughton, 1913
The Lost Prince
Century, 1915
Hodder & Stoughton, 1915
The White People
Harper, 1917
Heinemann, 1920
Little Hunchback Zia
Stokes, 1916
Heinemann, 1916
The Head of the House of Coombe
Stokes, 1922
Heinemann, 1922
Robin
Stokes, 1922
Heinemann, 1922
In the Garden
Medici Society, 1925
Plays
I have not included dramatizations of Mrs Burnett’s books by other writers. The dates are the first nights of production in London and New York. They were often toured earlier, and sometimes single copyright performances were also given earlier.
1. That Lass o’ Lowrie’s
F.H.B. and Julian Magnus
Booth Theater, Broadway, New York
28th November 1878
2. Esmeralda
F.H.B. and William Gillette
Madison Square Theater, New York
26th October 1881
as Young Folk’s Ways
St James’ Theatre, London
29th October 1883
3. The Real Little Lord Fauntleroy
Terry’s Theatre,London
14th May 1888
Broadway Theater, New York
11th December 1888
4. Phyllis (from the Fortunes of Philippa Fairfax)
Globe Theatre, London
1st July 1889
5. Nixie (from Editha’s Burglar)
F.H.B. and Stephen Townesend
Terry’s Theatre, London
7th April 1890
6. The Showman’s Daughter
F.H.B. and Stephen Townesend
Royalty Theatre, London
6th January 1892
7. The First Gentleman of Europe
F.H.B. with Constance Fletcher
Lyceum Theater, New York
25th January 1897
8. A Lady of Quality
F.H.B. with Stephen Townesend
Wallack’s Theater, New York
1st November 1897
Comedy Theatre, London
8th March 1899
9. A Li
ttle Princess
(Originally A Little Unfairy Princess)
Shaftesbury Theatre, London
20th December 1902
Criterion Theater, New York
14th January 1903
10. The Pretty Sister of José
Duke of York’s Theatre, London
16th November 1903
Empire Theater, New York
10th November 1903
11. That Man and I (from The De Willoughby Claim)
Savoy Theatre, London
25th January 1904
12. Dawn of a Tomorrow
Lyceum Theater, New York
28th January 1909
Garrick Theatre, London
13th May 1910
13. Racketty Packetty House
Children’s Theater, New York
23rd December 1912
Mrs Burnett also apparently made plays from The Making of a Marchioness (called Glenpeffer), T. Tembarom and The Shuttle, and another play called Judy O’Hara—but I can find no record of productions of these
Main Published Sources
The One I Knew the Best of All
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Scribner (New York, 1893)
The Romantick Lady
Vivian Burnett, Scribner (New York, 1927)
As I Knew Them
Ella Hepworth Dixon, Hutchinson (London, 1930)
Mrs Ewing, Mrs Molesworth, Mrs Hodgson Burnett
Marghanita Laski, Arthur Barker (London, 1950)
Worlds Away
Pamela Maude, John Baker (London, 1964)
Happily Ever After
Constance Buel Burnett, Vanguard Press (New York, 1969)
Endnote
1 Where there are a number of early editions, I have included them.
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Ann Thwaite
Ann Thwaite is a Whitbread Prize winning biographer and children’s writer.
She was born in London, spent the war years in New Zealand and was educated at Queen Elizabeth’s, Barnet and St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Ann has travelled extensively and has lived in Tokyo, Benghazi and Nashville and is now settled in Norfolk with her husband, the poet Anthony Thwaite.
Ann has written five major biographies. The first, of Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author of The Secret Garden, was published in 1974. Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape won the 1985 Duff Cooper Prize and was described by John Carey as “one of the finest literary biographies of our time.” Emily Tennyson, The Poet’s Wife, is widely regarded as the most interesting biography of Tennyson himself. Glimpses of the Wonderful, a life of Edmund’s father, Philip Henry Gosse, was picked out by D. J. Taylor in the Independent as one of the “Ten Best Biographies” ever.
A.A. Milne: His Life won the Whitbread Biography of the Year 1990, and The Brilliant Career of Winnie-the-Pooh, a scrapbook off-shoot of her Milne biography was published in 1992.
For many years, Ann wrote and reviewed children’s books, as well as running a library for local children in her home. Her most recent book is a history of her own family called Passageways: The Story of a New Zealand Family. It was published in 2009.
Ann is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature as well as an Honorary Fellow of Roehampton University (National Centre for Research into Children’s Literature). She also has an honorary doctorate from the University of East Anglia and a D.Litt from Oxford.
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