Frances hodgson burnett mini biography george michael

Born in Manchester, England on November 24, 1849, Frances Eliza Hodgson was the eldest daughter in a family of two boys and three girls. After her father’s death when she was three years old, the Hodgsons experienced severe financial difficulties.

As a young girl, she would scrawl little stories on sheets of old notebooks, as she was unable to afford proper writing materials. In 1865 the family moved to Tennessee where they lived in a log cabin and the teenage Frances set up a little school.

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She began submitting stories to women’s magazines and in a time when most women did not have careers, Frances Eliza Hodgson was a literary success. In 1873 she married Dr. Swan Burnett and they had two sons — Lionel, born 1874, and Vivian, born 1876 — but the marriage was not a happy one.

Her younger son, Vivian, clamored for something for little boys to read, so Frances wrote “Little Lord Fauntleroy” and modeled the main character after him. In 1890 tragedy