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A Short Biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett

Author Name:

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Born As:

Frances Eliza Hodgson

Other Names:

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Born:

24 Nov 1849

Died:

29 Oct 1924




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Selected Works:

That Lass o' Lowrie's - 1877
 Haworth's - 1879
Louisiana - 1880
A Fair Barbarian - 1881
Through One Administration - 1883 
Little Lord Fauntleroy - 1886
Sara Crewe - 1888, later rewritten as A Little Princess - 1905 
The Secret Garden - 1911
The Lost Prince - 1915, and 
The Head of the House of Coombe - 1922
The Making of a Marchioness - 1911
The One I Knew Best of All - 1893

Theatre:

Esmeralda -  1881 - written with William Gillette
The Lady of Quality - 1896.                          
First husband Dr. Swan Burnett
Second husband Stephen Townsend                           
In 1888 she won a lawsuit in England over the dramatic rights to Little Lord Fauntleroy, establishing a precedent that was incorporated into British copyright law in 1911.                          
Emigrated to Knoxville, Tennessee in the United States in 1865.