Virginia McKenna Star label with two line drawings of McKenna by her sister-in-law Linden Travers, but these were replaced by a photograph when the album was reissued on the Rim label in 1979. Her audiobook work includes "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and narration of "The Lonely Doll" by Dare Wright. She is a patron of Cinnamon Trust - a national charity that helps elderly people to keep their pets. Virginia McKenna Virginia Anne McKenna, OBE (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films "A Town
Frances Hodgson Burnett 1870, her mother died, and in 1872 she married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor. The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their two sons were born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C. Burnett then began to write novels, the first of which ("That Lass o' Lowrie's"), was published to good reviews. "Little Lord Fauntleroy" was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of "Little Lord Fauntleroy"