Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children’s novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). (via Wikipedia)
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The Secret Garden is one of my favorite books, and while I’ve read some of FHB’s other kids books (The Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy) I never knew she wrote so many other books– and most of them for adults!
This is a bibliography of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s major works, including novels, novellas (or “novelettes”), and short story collections.
I didn’t include stand-alone/non-collected short stories, poems, or plays. Essays that were published as books are included, but ones that weren’t collected are not listed. (Hope all that makes sense!)
Links go to online versions of those works, where available. Many of her works are scanned and available as PDFs, but haven’t been converted to HTML/EPUB format yet, so just keep that in mind.
A note: many of FHB’s books were republished under different titles, depending on the location, the publisher, or the author’s preference. I’ve (mostly) listed everything under the original publication name, and tried to note alternate titles when very different.
Note: Some links here are affiliate links, which means if you click on it and buy something, I get a small percentage. This money goes towards running the blog. Thank you for your support!
Children’s Books
- Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday (1908) — sequel to The Good Wolf
- The Cozy Lion: As Told by Queen Crosspatch (1907)
- Editha’s Burglar: A Story for Children (1888)
- Giovanni and The Other: Children Who Have Made Stories (1892)
- The Good Wolf (1908)
- In the Closed Room (1904); illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith
- The Land of the Blue Flower (1909)
- The Little Hunchback Zia ()
- Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886)
- A Little Princess (1905) [alt version]
- Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories (1888) — contains the stories Little Saint Elizabeth; The Story of Prince Fairyfoot; The Proud Little Grain of Wheat; Behind the White Brick
- The Lost Prince (1915)
- Piccino and Other Child Stories (1897) — contains the stories Two days in the life of Piccino; The captain’s youngest; Little Betty’s kitten tells her story; How Fauntleroy occurred
- Queen Silver-Bell (1906)
- Racketty-Packetty House, as Told by Queen Crosspatch (1906)
- Sara Crewe; or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s (1887) — later reworked to A Little Princess
- The Spring Cleaning, As Told by Queen Crosspatch (1921)
- The Secret Garden (1911)
- The Troubles of Queen Silver-Bell: As Told by Queen Crosspatch (1915)
- Two Little Pilgrims’ Progress: A Story of the City Beautiful (1895)
Adult Books
- The Dawn of A To-morrow (1906)
- Earlier Stories, vol. 1 (1891) — contains the stories Lindsay’s Luck; Miss Crespigny; Theo
- Earlier Stories, vol. 2 (1891) — contains the stories Kathleen Mavourneen; Pretty Polly Pemberton
- Emily Fox-Seton (1901) — originally published under two volumes: The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst
- A Fair Barbarian (1881)
- The Fortunes of Philippa Fairfax (1877)
- Haworth’s (1879)
- The Head of the House of Coombe (1922)
- His Grace of Osmonde (1897) — sequel to A Lady of Quality
- In Connection With the De Willoughby Claim (1899)
- In the Garden (1925)
- Kathleen: A Love Story (1870) aka Kathleen Mavourneen
- A Lady of Quality (1896)
- Lindsay’s Luck (1872)
- Lodusky (1877)
- Louisiana (1880)
- Miss Crespigny’s Absurd Flirtation (1876)
- Miss Defarge (1879) — aka A Woman’s Will
- My Robin (1912)
- Natalie, and Other Stories (1879) — contains the stories Natalie: a story of the Latin Quarter; The fire at Grantley Mills; The woman who saved me; “Surly Tim’s Trouble”; One day at Arle
- The One I Knew the Best of All: A Memory of the Mind of a Child (1893)
- Pretty Polly Pemberton (1874)
- The Pretty Sister of Jose (1889)
- Robin (1922) — sequel to The Head of the House of Coombe
- The Shuttle (1907)
- Surly Tim and Other Stories (1877)
- T. Tembarom (1913)
- That Lass o’ Lowrie’s (1876)
- Theo (1873)
- Through One Administration (1883)
- A Quiet Life (1885) — contains self-title story as well as The Tide on the Moaning Bar
- Vagabondia (1884) — originally published as Dolly
- The White People (1917)
Sources & Resources
The Complete Works of Frances Hodgson Burnett: http://www.franceshodgsonburnett.org/
The Online Books Page for Frances Hodgson Burnett: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/who/Burnett%2c%20Frances%20Hodgson%2c%201849%2d1924
Prall, V. M., photographer. (ca. 1908) Frances Hodgson Burnett, full-length portrait, seated, reading at a table. , ca. 1908. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2004681682/.
