Manchester burial place for Jane's parents and the birthplace of Jane herself. Also closely associated with the city is Victorian poet and novelist Isabella Banks, most famed for her 1876 novel "The Manchester Man". Anglo-American author Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in the city's Cheetham Hill district in 1849, and wrote much of her classic children's novel "The Secret Garden" while visiting nearby Salford's Buile Hill Park. Anthony Burgess is among the 20th century writers who made Manchester their home, he wrote the dystopian satire "A Clockwork Orange" in 1962. Dame Carol Ann Duffy, the current Poet Laureate, moved to the
Martin Page (British author) Martin Page (British author) Martin Page (30 June 1938 - 10 September 2003) was a British writer and journalist who founded Business Traveler magazine. After attending Leighton Park and Millfield, Page went to Pembroke College, Cambridge" where he studied anthropology. At the age of 24, despite suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, Page became Fleet Street's youngest correspondent, covering seven wars from Algeria to Vietnam. He began his career as a graduate trainee for the Manchester Guardian before joining the Daily Express. In 1975, Page founded Business Traveler magazine. The magazine included Auberon Waugh on its payroll. Page also wrote for the