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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Take a first look at photos from the upcoming revival of The Secret Garden – The Musical. Based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s ...

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, ...

True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink Lexicographer Stamper (Word by Word) takes readers on an uproarious journey into Merriam-Webster’s somber ...

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