In temperate climes, autumn is the season for putting gardens to bed. Gardeners tidy away dried leaves and stems, mulch flowerbeds, and tuck tender bulbs of hyacinth, daffodil and tulip under the soil ...

In 1908, Frances Hodgson Burnett, a writer once so poor she couldn’t afford paper and pens, built the home of her dreams on Long Island, a 17-room mansion with a grand pathway along the garden to the ...

Tony Award-winning musical is based on the classic novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Resting peacefully in a grove at Roslyn Cemetery is the author of The Secret Garden (1911), one of the most famous children’s books of all time. Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-born ...

Our staff and contributors look back on the city’s year in art, from blockbusters to under-the-radar art heroes and unsung histories.

All through her life, she broke the rules. Her formal education ended at age 13. She challenged society’s notions about womanhood at a time when few women worked, and set the gossips’ tongues wagging ...

CU Boulder Associate Professor Emily Harrington examines the enduring power of stories we read in childhood and what we can learn from them as adults When many people think of December, their minds ...

Knoxville is, or should be, widely known for its ties to literature. Many authors, including George Washington Harris, Anne Armstrong, James Agee, Cormac McCarthy, Nikki Giovanni and Richard Marius, ...

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