A Stepping Stones classic
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was born and grew up in
Manchester, but after her father's death she emigrated with her
mother to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1865. Five years later her
mother died and - like many other women of her time - she began
writing short stories for popular magazines to support her family.
Her first novel, That Lass o' Lowrie's (1877), brought her instant
fame on both sides of the Atlantic.
She married in 1873, and in 1886 her popular children's serial
Little Lord Fauntleroy was published to instant success. Mrs.
Burnett wrote many other novels, for both children and adults, as
well as plays and short stories, but she is best remembered for the
classic children's novels The Secret Garden (1911) and A Little
Princess (1905).
She became an American citizen in 1905, though she travelled
frequently to Europe. She died at her home on Long Island a few
weeks before her seventy-fifth birthday.
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