Frances Hodgson Burnett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Frances Hodgson Burnett

English-American childrens' playwright and author

Date of Birth: 24-Nov-1849

Place of Birth: Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 29-Oct-1924

Profession: writer, dramaturge, children's writer, novelist, short story writer

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-born American novelist and playwright.
  • 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). Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England.
  • After her father died in 1852, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling in New Market, Tennessee.
  • There, Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19.
  • In 1870, her mother died, and in 1872 she married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor.
  • The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their two sons were born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C.
  • Burnett then began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o' Lowrie's), was published to good reviews.
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular.
  • She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess. Beginning in the 1880s, Burnett began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there, where she wrote The Secret Garden.
  • Her oldest son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1890, which caused a relapse of the depression she had struggled with for much of her life.
  • She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898, married Stephen Townsend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902.
  • A few years later she settled in Nassau County, New York, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery. In 1936 a memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in her honour in Central Park's Conservatory Garden.
  • The statue depicts her two famous Secret Garden characters, Mary and Dickon.

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