Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson was born in 1849 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England. Her father, who sold ironmongery, died when she was three, and the family's fortunes declined. In 1865 they emigrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville, Tennessee. To earn money, Frances began selling stories to magazines while still a teenager. In 1873 she married Swan Burnett, who became a doctor, and they had two sons; the death of her elder son, Lionel, in 1890 grieved her deeply. Her novel Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), about an American boy who discovers that he is heir to an English earldom, was a huge success and set a fashion for boys' velvet suits. A Little Princess (1905), developed from an earlier story and play, tells of Sara Crewe, a wealthy pupil left penniless at a London boarding school. The Secret Garden (1911) follows the orphaned Mary Lennox, who brings a neglected garden and her sickly cousin back to life. Burnett crossed the Atlantic many times and died in Plandome, New York, in 1924.

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Faith: Raised in the Church of England; later explored Spiritualism, Christian Science and Theosophy without fully joining any. Source: Wikipedia