Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular.
Burnett then began to write novels, the first of which ( That Lass o' Lowrie's), was published to good reviews. The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their second son Vivian was born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C. Their first son Lionel was born a year later. In Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1873 she married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor. Frances began her writing career there at age 19 to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines. After her father died in 1853, when Frances was 4 years old, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling in New Market, Tennessee. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885–1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).įrances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright.
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