the secret garden 秘密花园课件.ppt

TheSecretGarden 第一页，编辑于星期二：十七点 四十九分。 I. An introduction II. The author III. Background IV. Major characters V. Plot summary VI. Major themes 6、Major themes outline 第二页，编辑于星期二：十七点 四十九分。 I. An introduction The Secret Garden?is a novel by?Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was first published in 1911. It is now one of Burnetts most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English childrens literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been produced. 第三页，编辑于星期二：十七点 四十九分。 II. The author Frances Hodgson Burnett Born Frances Eliza Hodgson24 November 1849England Died 29 October 1924?(aged?74)United States Children She had two boys. 第四页，编辑于星期二：十七点 四十九分。 Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett?was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her childrens stories, in particular?Little Lord Fauntleroy?《方特勒罗伊小爵爷》(published in 1885-6),?A Little Princess?(1905), and?The Secret Garden?(1911). 第五页，编辑于星期二：十七点 四十九分。 Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in?Cheetham, England. After her father died in 1852, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 immigrated to the United States, settling near?Knoxville, Tennessee. There Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In 1870 her mother died, and in 1872 Frances married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor. 第六页，编辑于星期二：十七点 四十九分。 III. The background The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their two sons were born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C., Burnett then began to write novels. Beginning in the 1880s, she began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there where she wrote?The Secret Garden. 第七页，编辑于星期二：十七点 四十九分。 From the mid-1890s she lived in England at?Great Maytham Hall—which had a large garden where she indulged her love for flowers—where she made her home for the next decade, although she continued annual transatlantic trips to the United States.?Maytham Hall resembled a