The White People - Softcover

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438512139 ISBN 13: 9781438512136

Publisher: Book Jungle, 2009

Synopsis

Frances Hodgson Burnett, (1849 - 1924) was an English-American playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy. After her father's death in 1854 her family lived in poverty in the Victorian slums of Manchester. After moving to Tennessee her mother died in 1867 which made Frances the sole support of the younger children. It was at this point that she began to write. After the death of her son Burnett began considering life after death. She wrote about it in this warm and old-fashioned book. The White People is the story of a young woman with unusual insight living as a semi-recluse in the Scottish Highlands. A passage from the book reads. "The first hour she was like a dead thing--aye, like a dead thing that had never lived. But when the hand of the clock passed the last second, and the new hour began, I bent closer to her because I saw a change stealing over her. It was not color--it was not even a shadow of a motion. It was something else. If I had spoken what I felt, they would have said I was light-headed with grief and have sent me away. I have never told man or woman. It was my secret and hers. I can tell you, Ysobel. The change I saw was as if she was beginning to listen to something--to listen."

About this title

About the Author:

Frances Hodgson Burnett is best known for her children's stories The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy. Born into the slums of Manchester, she wrote realistic working-class tales with romantic plots. Later in life, she lived in Washington, D.C. and became a US citizen.

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1438512139
• ISBN 13: 9781438512136
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64