黑布林-The Black Bolin edition of the Secret Garden秘密花园名著整理.doc

《秘密花园》英语名著介绍 一、作者简介 弗朗西丝·伊莱扎·霍奇森于1849年11月24日出生在英国曼彻斯特，是家里的长女，家里有两个男孩和三个女孩。在她三岁时父亲去世后，霍奇森一家经历了严重的经济困难。当她还是个小女孩的时候，由于买不起合适的书写材料，她会在旧笔记本上潦草地写下小故事。1865年，弗朗西丝一家搬到田纳西州，住在一间小木屋里，十几岁的弗朗西丝开办了一所小学校。弗朗西丝·伊莱莎·霍奇斯顿(Frances Eliza Hodgsdon)开始向女性杂志投稿，在大多数女性还没有事业的时候，她却在文学上取得了成功。1873年，她嫁给了斯万·伯内特医生，他们生了两个儿子——出生于1874年的莱昂内尔和出生于1876年的维维安——但婚姻并不幸福。她的小儿子薇薇安(Vivian)想要一些小男孩们读的东西，于是弗朗西斯写了《小爵爷方特勒罗伊》(little Lord方特勒罗伊)，并以他为原型塑造了主人公。1890年，悲剧发生了，她的大儿子莱昂内尔死于流感。弗朗西丝和斯旺分居，最终在1898年离婚，她又和斯蒂芬·汤森再婚。弗朗西斯于1901年搬到纽约长岛，在那里开始写她最著名的两个故事——《小公主》和《秘密花园》，灵感来自于她贫穷的童年和她对园艺的热爱。她年老的时候开始有些古怪，但喜欢她的孙辈。弗朗西丝·霍奇森·伯内特于1924年10月29日去世。 Born in Manchester, England on November 24 1849, Frances Eliza Hodgson was the eldest daughter in a family of two boys and three girls. After her fathers death when she was three years old, the Hodgsdons experienced severe financial difficulties. As a young girl, she would scrawl little stories on sheets of old notebooks, as she was unable to afford proper writing materials. In 1865 the family moved to Tennessee where they lived in a log cabin and the teenage Frances set up a little school. She began submitting stories to womens magazines and in a time when most women did not have careers, Frances Eliza Hodgsdon was a literary success. In 1873 she married Dr. Swan Burnett and they had two sons -- Lionel, born 1874, and Vivian, born 1876 -- but the marriage was not a happy one. Her younger son, Vivian, asked for something for little boys to read, so Frances wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy and modeled the main character after him. In 1890 tragedy struck when her eldest son, Lionel, died of influenza. Frances and Swan separated and finally divorced in 1898, and she went on to remarry Stephen Townshend. Frances moved to Long Island, New York in 1901 and there began to write her two most famous stories -- A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, inspired by her poor childhood and her love for gardening. She began rather eccentric in her old age, but delighted in her grandchildren. Frances Hodgson Burnett