Frances Hodgson Burnett In 1936 a memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in her honour in Central Park's Conservatory Garden. The statue depicts her two famous "Secret Garden" characters, Mary and Dickon. Frances Eliza Hodgson was born at 141 York Street in Cheetham, Manchester. She was the third of five children of Edwin Hodgson, an ironmonger from Doncaster in Yorkshire, and his wife Eliza Boond, from a well-to-do Manchester family. Hodgson owned a business in Deansgate, selling ironmongery and brass goods. The family lived comfortably, employing a maid and a nurse-maid. Frances had two older brothers and two younger sisters. In
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,