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 Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester, England, in 1849. Her father owned a home-furnishings business, supported by customers made wealthy through the Manchester textile industry.
But when her father died in 1853 and cotton imports ceased when the American Civil War began, Frances’s family became almost penniless. To survive, her mother moved her five children to rural Tennessee in 1865.
A naturally gifted storyteller, Frances charmed family and friends with her keen imagination. In spite of little formal schooling, she read avidly, and it was not long before she realized she might aid her struggling family by selling stories to popular ladies’ magazines.
Noted by critics as an up-and-coming author, Burnett became a prominent hostess in Washington, D.C., but loved to travel as much as possible.
She wrote more than fifty novels during her life, but it was the publication of Little Lord Fauntleroy in 1886 that determined the course of her future works and her place in literary history as a writer of children’s fiction.
After the dissolution of her first and second marriages and the 1890 death of her eldest son, Lionel, Burnett wrote the classic for which she is most remembered, The Secret Garden (1911).
She remained a prolific writer throughout, and after World War I, although her Victorian style had become outdated in the eyes of many critics.
Surrounded by her family and many friends, Burnett discarded such criticism, writing the successful work The Lost Prince (1915), doing charity work, and tending the luxurious gardens at her homes on Long Island and Bermuda.
Frances Hodgson Burnett died of heart failure in Plandome (Long Island), New York, on October 29, 1924. [edit]
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