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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Born: November 23 1849

Died: 2828 10 19241924

Frances Eliza Hodgson was the daughter of ironmonger Edwin Hodgson, who died three years after her birth, and his wife Eliza Boond. She was educated at The Select Seminary for Young Ladies and Gentleman until the age of fifteen, at which point the family ironmongery, then being run by her mother, failed, and the family emigrated to Knoxville, Tennessee. Here Hodgson began to write, in order to supplement the family income, assuming full responsibility for the family upon the death of her mother, in 1870. In 1872 she married Dr. Swan Burnett, with whom she had two sons, Lionel and Vivian. The marriage was dissolved in 1898. In 1900 Burnett married actor Stephen Townsend until 1902 when they got divorced. Following her great success as a novelist, playwright, and children's author, Burnett maintained homes in both England and America, traveling back and forth quite frequently. She died in her Long Island, New York home, in 1924.

Primarily remembered today for her trio of classic children's novels - Little Lord Fauntleroy , A Little Princess , and The Secret Garden - Burnett was also a popular adult novelist, in her own day, publishing romantic stories such as The Making of a Marchioness for older readers.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Books from Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden

A Little Princess

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Sara Crewe, Or What Happened At Miss Minchin's

The Secret Garden / A Little Princess

The Lost Prince

The Secret Garden (Great Illustrated Classics)

The Making of a Marchioness

The Making of a Marchioness, Part I and II

The Shuttle

Three Complete Books: The Secret Garden / A Little Princess / Little Lord Fauntleroy

The Secret Garden on 81st Street: A Modern Retelling of the Secret Garden

The Racketty-Packetty House

Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers, 1852-1923

A Little Princess (Oxford Bookworms Library)

A Lady of Quality

The Enchanted Collection: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Secret Garden, Black Beauty, The Wind in the Willows, Little Women: Black Beauty, Little ... in the Willows (The Heirloom Collection)

Le Jardin secret - Tome 1

The Land of the Blue Flower

The White People