Frances Hodgson Burnett and "A Little Princess". Burnett enjoyed socializing and lived a lavish lifestyle. Beginning in the 1880s, she began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there, where she wrote "The Secret Garden". Her oldest son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1890, which caused a relapse of the depression she had struggled with for much of her life. She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898, married Stephen Townsend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902. A few years later she settled in Nassau County, New York, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery.
William Hope Hodgson novel, in which he poured out his imagination at its most unbridled, and not his last. Gafford writes: "This concern over the order of composition of the novels may seem of little importance until we consider the implications toward Hodgson's work overall. .. in effect, Hodgson moved away from "TNL"’s quasi-science fiction scenario (which contained an astounding number of original conceptions) and toward "BoGC"’s more basic adventure slant." If we accept Gafford's thesis, then Hodgson actually wrote "The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"" last, and it benefits from the modernization of style to the point where it is Hodgson's most