Editing Frances Hodgson Burnett (section)

=== Remarriage and later life ===
[[File:F H Burnett.jpg|thumb|Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1901]]

The marriage took place in [[Genoa]], Italy, and the couple went to [[Pegli]] for their honeymoon, where they endured two weeks of steady rain. Burnett's biographer [[Gretchen Gerzina]] writes of the marriage, "it was the biggest mistake of her life".<ref name="Gerzina 2004 214–215"/> The press stressed the age difference—Townsend was ten years younger than she—and she referred to him as her secretary.<ref name=" Gerzina 2004 214–215"/> Biographer Ann Thwaite doubts Townsend loved Burnett, claiming that 50-year-old Burnett was "stout, rouged and unhealthy" and believes Townsend needed Burnett to help with his acting career, and support him financially. Within months, in a letter to her sister, Burnett admitted the marriage was in trouble, describing Townsend as scarcely sane and hysterical. Thwaite argues that Townsend blackmailed Burnett into the marriage, and he just wanted her money and to be in control of her as a husband.<ref>{{Harvnb|Thwaite|1991|pp=190–191}}</ref>

Unable to bear the thought of continuing to live with Townsend at Maytham, Burnett rented a house in London for the winter of 1900–1901. There she socialized with friends and wrote. She worked on two books simultaneously: ''[[The Shuttle (novel)|The Shuttle]]'', a longer and more complicated book; and ''[[The Making of a Marchioness]]'', which she wrote in a few weeks and published to good reviews. In the spring of 1901, when she returned to the country, Townsend tried to replace her long-time publisher Scribner's with a publishing house offering a larger advance.<ref>{{Harvnb|Thwaite|1991|pp=196–199}}</ref> In the autumn of 1902, after a summer of socializing and filling Maytham with house-guests, she suffered a physical collapse. She returned to America, and in the winter of 1902 entered a [[sanatorium]]. There she told Townsend she would no longer live with him, and the marriage ended.<ref>{{Harvnb|Gerzina|2004|p=229}}</ref>

She returned to Maytham two years later in June 1904.<ref>{{Harvnb|Gerzina|2004|p=231}}</ref>  Maytham Hall had a series of walled gardens and in the rose garden she wrote several books; it was there she had the idea for ''The Secret Garden'', mainly written at the manor house in [[Buile Hill Park]] while visiting Manchester.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:ZN3C2c2j2wgJ:services.salford.gov.uk/solar_documents/CWCR141003U_0.PDF+%22Buile+Hill+estate%22&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgvVoglM4mkD-9dtNJ8smWCrrTe3nLWPmM-QHN-RMuaJqsTXklB02_al6Ew7sb07x_aoMu5djXY-N7bcmKPUJh7H8s3ZdHiPVZkA5sJ64SrD0KnsXxrQU2nYbK9gmDPoo-ft3XX&sig=AHIEtbSibnT1uZoDCTc4WuC4q_RZNfZTWg|title=Buile Hill Park|publisher=[[Salford Borough Council]]|access-date=16 February 2012}}</ref> In 1905 ''A Little Princess'' was published, after she had reworked the play into a novel.<ref name="Rutherford"/> Once again Burnett turned to writing to increase her income. She lived an extravagant lifestyle, spending money on expensive clothing.<ref name="Hofstader 1971"/> It was reported in 1905 that Burnett was a [[Semi-vegetarianism|semi-vegetarian]]. She had eliminated meat almost entirely from her diet.<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069313/1905-02-24/ed-1/seq-2/ ''On Vegetarianism'']. ''The Hartford Republican'' (24 February 1905).</ref>
[[File:Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Bookman, New York, v.40, Oct. 1914).png|thumb|''The Bookman'', 1914]]
In 1907, she returned permanently to the United States, having become a citizen in 1905, and built a home, completed in 1908, in the Plandome Park section of [[Plandome Manor]] on Long Island outside New York City. Her son Vivian was employed in the publishing business, and at his request, she agreed to be an editor for ''Children's Magazine''. Over the next several years she had published in ''Children's Magazine'' several shorter works. In 1911 she had ''The Secret Garden'' published.<ref name="Rutherford"/> In her later years she maintained the summer home on Long Island, and a winter home in [[Bermuda]].<ref name="Hofstader 1971"/> ''[[The Lost Prince (Burnett novel)|The Lost Prince]]'' was published in 1915, and ''[[The Head of the House of Coombe]]'' and its sequel, ''Robin, ''were published in 1922.<ref name="Rutherford"/>

Burnett lived for the last 17 years of her life in Plandome Manor,<ref>O'Connell, Pamela Licalzi. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E3D6143CF93BA3575BC0A9629C8B63 "Literature; 'The Secret Garden' Has Deep Island Roots"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 8 August 2004. Accessed 11 November 2007. "Mrs. Burnett, the author of ''The Secret Garden'' and other enduring children's classics, lived on a grand estate in Plandome the last 17 years of her life."</ref> where she died on 29 October 1924, aged 74.<ref name="Rutherford"/> She was buried in [[Roslyn Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Roslyn Cemetery {{!}} Profiles {{!}} Roslyn Landmark Society |url=https://www.roslynlandmarks.org/profiles/roslyn-cemetery |website=www.roslynlandmarks.org}}</ref>