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Category: Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • From my Shelves: T Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett

    For this From My Shelves I have chosen T Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett. My copy is a lovely old battered one with speckled edges and black and white line drawings. It was published by A L Burt Company whose address is given as 114120 East Twenty Third Street and this edition is dated 1913.…

  • Another FH Burnett – the Lost Prince

    I find January a dreary month and always glad when it is over. I am not a lover of the false jollity of New Year’s Eve and normally stay at home and grumble and this year was no different.  I also find it hard to get going on my heap of books waiting my attention…

  • T Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett. A re-read

    I am finding it hard to get going with my reading so far. After Christmas I find I go into a slump/hibernation when I feel like doing nothing at all. And these days, being retired, I can do precisely that if I wish to.  So I do what I always do when I cannot settle…

  • T Tembarom – Frances Hodgson Burnett

    I am having one of my bursts of re-reading books I have read dozens of times before. I find I tend to do this when I have a lot on my mind and organising and getting ready for my Oz trip is the reason behind it all I think.   I am used to organising, have…

  • A Little Princess and a Little Country Girl

    Hayley on her lovely blog, Desperate Reader recently posted about her reading of A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett here and as soon as I read it I knew I simply had to read it again myself, and I did. And oh how I loved it all over again.  It must be some twenty…

  • The Making of a Lady – Utter Travesty of a marvellous book

    Have just finished watching the adaptation of this wonderful novel.   Words cannot express just how utterly dire and dreadful and awful it was. Funereal pace, characters altered and changed, acting that would shame a school play,  Grand Guignol gone barking.   It was APPALLINGLY bad.   What is the point of taking a charming and lovely little…

  • VicLit

    A few years back I was asked by an early visitor to Random, who noted that I love Victorian Literature, if I could name my favourite books from that genre.  I have recently been asked the same question and so I have had a rethink and while I was jotting notes checked my earlier post…

  • Duplicates, Triplicates and More

    When I was painting my bookshelves last week and all my books were in heaps on the floor, I had a bit of a clear out (not a big one, just a few books went) and I realised that I had duplicate copies of many books. I remember my mum always used to ask me…

  • Frances Hodgson Burnett

    When I posted about LM Montgomery and showed you a picture of my collection, I received a comment from Rachel who has the most super blog at http://www.books-snob.blogspot.com who said that she collects Frances Hodgson Burnett and when I said I did the same, said she would love to see  a picture of my FHB pile. …