This author was born in 1849 in England but moved to live with relatives in the US after her father died. She wrote magazine articles in her teens to support her mother and siblings. She shocked Victorian society by wearing her hair loose, making more money than some male writers, buying herself a house and divorcing two husbands. When her 16-year-old son died in her arms of tuberculosis, she fell into depression but was helped by writing about a dying garden brought back to life, which mirrored her own journey through grief. This is Frances Hodgson Burnett and her novel was The Secret Garden, published in 1911.
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