Cultivating Secret Gardens: Frances Hodgson Burnett and Children's Fiction

This exhibition is mounted in conjunction with "One Hundred Years of The Secret Garden: A Centenary Conference" cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Department of English, and the Friends of the Dartmouth College Library.

The exhibit was curated by Laura Braunstein and Jay Satterfield and was on display in the Class of 1965 Galleries from July 6 to August 31, 2011.

Materials Included in the Exhibition

Case Title Materials included Case 1. The Professional Writer 1. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Little Lord Fauntleroy: A Drama in Three Acts. New York: Samuel French, 1913. Williams/Watson PL572 2. Frances Hodgson Burnett, Plandome Park, to Elizabeth McFadden, New York, 21 December 1915. Manuscript 915671 3. Letters from Frances Hodgson Burnett, Plandome Park, to Samuel French, Inc., New York, 1913- 1915. Manuscript 913361 4. Playbill for Little Lord Fauntleroy, Broadway Theater, New York, 27 April 1889. Williams/Watson PR NY NYM-Bro3 f8890427 5. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Holograph manuscript of The Plain Miss Burnie. Ms Codex Mss 003180 6. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Little Lord Fauntleroy. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1886. Rare Book PS1214 .L57 1886 7. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Sara Crewe, or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888. Rare Book PS1214 .S37 1888. Another edition

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Case 2. Secret Worlds 1. A.A. Milne. “When We Were Very Young.” Punch 166 (13 February 1924): 157. 2. J. M. Barrie. Peter and Wendy. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. Val 826 B27 U61 or Sine Illus B444pe 3. Robert Lewis Stevenson. A Child’s Garden of Verses. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885. Rare Book PR5489 .C5 1885 4. L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900. Rare Book PS3503.A923 W59 1900 5. Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book. London: Macmillan and Co., 1894. Val 826 K62 S21 6. Rudyard Kipling. The Second Jungle Book. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. Val PR4854 .J83 7. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women, or, Jo, Beth and Amy. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868. 1926 Coll A39 8. Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. London: Methuen and Co., 1908. Val 826 G766 Y711 9. Kenneth Grahame. The Wind in the Willows. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933. Sine Illus S44wind

Case 3. Secret Gardens 1. Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1911. Rare Book PS1214 .S42 1911 2. Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden. London: William Heinemann, 1911. Rare Book PS1214 .S42 1911b 3. Frances Hodgson Burnett. The

Rauner Special Collections Library 2 Secret Garden. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard. London: Heinemann, 1950. Sine Illus S44sec 4. Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden. Illustrated by Graham Rust. Boston: David Godine, 1987. Presses G555bur 5. Robert Ardey. Screenplay for The Secret Garden. Culver City, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, 1948. Scripts 1731 6. Opening night playbill for The Secret Garden. St. James Theatre, New York, 25 April 1991.

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