![]() ![]() Previous descriptions of development in Burnett's three best known works have focused on the increasing depth and subtlety in the portrayal of her main child characters. ![]() In The Secret Garden she continued to use themes and motifs from these genres, but she gave symbolic enrichment and mythic enlargement to her poetic vision by adding tropes from pastoral tradition at least as old as Virgil's Georgics. In Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess Burnett combined two genres she knew as a child: the fairy tale and the exemplum. ![]() 1 Burnett's individual achievement in these books can be described by placing them within the appropriate literary traditions. This was Marghanita Laski's assessment in 1951, and subsequent critical opinion has usually agreed with her. Frances Hodgson Burnett's lasting contribution to children's literature consists of three books, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and her best work, The Secret Garden (1911). ![]()
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