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‘Weird tale’ by Secret Garden author Frances Hodgson Burnett discovered

Written By Unknown on Thursday, April 9, 2020 | 12:26 PM

Christmas in the Fog, written for adults, is to be republished in Queens of the Abyss, an anthology of lost stories

The darker side of Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of classic children’s novels including The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy, is set to be revealed by a forgotten story found in the archives of the British Library, untouched for more than 100 years.

The British-American Hodgson Burnett is best remembered today for her The Secret Garden, the 1911 tale of a girl who comes from India to the isolated Yorkshire moors, and 1886’s Little Lord Fauntleroy, about a poor boy from Brooklyn who discovers he has inherited an English estate.

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