Writer Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“This novel was in a sense developed in stages. First published as a series in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1887 as Sara Crewe, or…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“lunch parties that the missus had for her girlfriends. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice. They were forever saying each other’s names. Mamie…

— Edna O'Brien

August Strindberg gave me the opportunity to have this incredible story [Miss Julie ], about the class system, about unfairness in life, but also…

— Liv Ullmann

“Do you mean to tell me,” she cried out, “that he left nothing! That Sara will have no fortune! That the child is a…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“So she was ‘my lady’ now, not ‘miss’. That was what she had always wanted, wasn’t it? Why did the words chill her? There…

— Frances Hardinge

“Amy Wright prior to publication. Any reproduction or other”

— Amy Wright

“Sara, who snatched her lessons at all sorts of untimely hours from tattered and discarded books, and who had a hungry craving for everything…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Sarah (Winnemucca) is best known for her 1883 autobiography, Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Theirs Claims, the first memoir writen and published…

— Linda Rodríguez McRobbie

Harriet Beecher Stowe thought Uncle Tom's Cabin was written through her by Another Hand, so little did she know what was going to happen…

— Sophy Burnham

Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas -…

— Jill Lepore

“On Writing About Nora Hawks I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and…

— Dennis R. Miller

“Miss Appleby, her library books, and her story-telling sessions were very popular with all the children in Heavenly Valley. To Nancy and Plum they…

— Betty MacDonald