The Forgotten Garden Gothic conventions found in books like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, most poignantly the dark and gloomy estate. There are also recognizable parallels between this novel and Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden". Published in the United States by Atria Books, April 2009, , hardback. Kate Morton drew on personal experiences as she wrote "The Forgotten Garden." Morton's own grandmother, just like Nell, found out on her 21st birthday that she was not the biological daughter of her parents. It was a secret she kept until she confided in her three older daughters as an old woman, and this dark
Kirkman Hodgson Elms, Hampstead. He attended Charterhouse School in 1826. Hodgson married Frances Butler (1822–1851) in 1843 and the children to the marriage were Caroline Anna and Robert Kirkman. Hodgson died at his residence of Ashgrove, Sevenoaks, Kent. Kirkman Hodgson Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, JP (1814 – 11 September 1879) was an East India merchant and banker, becoming a partner in the merchantile firm of Baring Brothers and Co. He later became Deputy Governor and Governor of the Bank of England (1863–1865) and a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. He first stood in Bridport in 1857 to 1868 and later stood