Frances Hodgson Burnett dissolution of their marriage some years earlier. Swan took his own apartment and ceased to live with Burnett, so that after a period of two years she could plead desertion as a reason for the divorce. The press was critical, calling her a New Woman, with "The Washington Post" writing that the divorce resulted from Burnett's "advanced ideas regarding the duties of a wife and the rights of women". From the mid-1890s she lived in England at Great Maytham Hall—which had a large garden where she indulged her love for flowers—where she made her home for the next decade, although
The Shuttle (novel) list of bestselling novels in the United States for 1907 and 1908. "The Shuttle "was made into a silent film in 1918 by Margaret Trunbull and Harvey Thew, and featured Constance Talmadge as Bettina Vanderpoel, Edith Johnson as Rosalie Vanderpoel, E. B. Tilton as Reuben Vanderpoel, Helen Dunbar as Mrs. Vanderpoel, George McDaniel as Sir Nigel Anstruthers, Albert Roscoe as Lord Mount Dunstan, Thomas Persse as Penzance, Edward Piel as Ughtred Anstruthers, and Casson Fergusoe as G. Selden. It was directed by Rollin Sturgeon for Select Pictures. The Shuttle (novel) The Shuttle is a 1907 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett,