BURNETT, FRANCES ELIZA HODGSON (1849 )

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BURNETT, FRANCES ELIZA HODGSON (1849 ) , Anglo-American novelist, whose maiden name was Hodgson, was born in

Manchester

England

ENGLAND
ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

, on the 24th of November 1849; she went to America with her parents, who settled in Knoxville,

Tennessee

TENNESSEE

, in 1865. Miss Hodgson soon began to write stories for magazines. In 1873 she married Dr L. M. Burnett of Washington, whom she afterwards (1898) divorced. Her reputation as a novelist was made by her remarkable tale of

Lancashire

LANCASHIRE

life

LIFE

, That Lass o' Lowrie's (1877), and a number of other volumes followed, of which the best were Through one Administration (1883) and A

Lady

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

of Quality (1896). In 1886 she attained a new popularity by her charming story of Little Lord Fauntleroy, and this led to other stories of child-

life

LIFE

. Little Lord Fauntleroy was dramatized (see COPYRIGHT for the legal questions involved) and had a

great

GREAT

success on the stage; and other dramas by her were also produced. In 1900 she married a second time, her

husband

HUSBAND

being Mr Stephen Townesend, a surgeon, who (as Will

Dennis

DENNIS, JOHN (1657—1734)

) had taken to the stage and had collaborated with her in some of her plays.

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