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 remunerative 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 3 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 novelist and playwright.
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