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
A Clockwork Orange (novel) material for a film which seemed to glorify sex and violence. The film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me until I die. I should not have written the book because of this danger of misinterpretation, and the same may be said of Lawrence and "Lady Chatterley's Lover"." "A Clockwork Orange" was chosen by "Time" magazine as one of the 100 best English-language books from 1923 to 2005. The best known adaptation of the novella to other forms is the 1971 film "A Clockwork Orange" by Stanley