Continuing on with my “A Life in Literature,” I look at some of the works that impacted me when I was 8-12. These include authors Lewis, Tolkien, Burnett and Shakespeare.
Tag Archives: Francis Hodgson Burnett
My Life in Literature, 3rd Installment
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Oliver: My Work Is Loving the World
in Mary Oliver’s “Messenger,” the poet provides insight into what it means to live forever.
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The Green Power of Imagining
In “Secret Garden,” healing begins with imagining a hopeful future. It’s a lesson for dealing with our environmental challenges.
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Secret Garden, Hidden Soul
The secret garden in Burnett’s novel works as a metaphor for the soul.
Secret Garden, Perfect Pandemic Reading
A “Paris Review” writer makes a great case that we should reread “Secret Garden” during the pandemic.
Illness in 19th Century Lit
19th century literature is filled with images of illness. Reading it should make us grateful to the advances in medical science.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bleak House, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, epidemics, fathers and sons, George Eliot, Illness, Ivan Turgenev, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Middlemarch, North and South, pandemics, Secret Garden Comments closed
Children Leading the Way on Gun Control
The young people helping America rediscover decency concerning guns resemble Mary and Colin in “The Secret Garden.”
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Top 10 Parent-Child Classics (Positive)
A top ten list of classics with positive depictions of parent-child relationships.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Mother to Son", Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, George Eliot, Golden Bowl, Harper Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Fielding, Henry James, Huckleberry Finn, Langston Hughes, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Mark Twain, Parent-child relationships, Silas Marner, Tempest, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Jones, Uncle Tom's Cabin, William Shakespeare Comments closed
