Manchester burial place for Jane's parents and the birthplace of Jane herself. Also closely associated with the city is Victorian poet and novelist Isabella Banks, most famed for her 1876 novel "The Manchester Man". Anglo-American author Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in the city's Cheetham Hill district in 1849, and wrote much of her classic children's novel "The Secret Garden" while visiting nearby Salford's Buile Hill Park. Anthony Burgess is among the 20th century writers who made Manchester their home, he wrote the dystopian satire "A Clockwork Orange" in 1962. Dame Carol Ann Duffy, the current Poet Laureate, moved to the
Frances Hodgson Burnett In her later years she maintained the summer home on Long Island, and a winter home in Bermuda. "The Lost Prince" was published in 1915, and "The Head of the House of Coombe" and its sequel, "Robin, "were published in 1922. Burnett lived for the last 17 years of her life in Plandome Manor, where she died on 29 October 1924, aged 74. She was buried in Roslyn Cemetery. Her son Vivian was buried nearby when he died in 1937. During the serialization of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" in "St. Nicholas" in 1885, readers looked forward to new installments. The fashions