![]() ![]() ![]() Primarily remembered today for her trio of classic children's novels - Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911) - Burnett was also a popular adult novelist, in her own day, publishing romantic stories such as The Making of a Marchioness (1901) for older readers. She died in her Long Island, New York home, in 1924. Her prince is the Marquis of Walderhurst, a rather dull man who marries Emily for her practical nature. In the first Cinderella-like tale, Emily is a poor gentlewoman who tirelessly helps others. ![]() Frances Hodgson Burnett combines two stories in this novel. Following her great success as a novelist, playwright, and children's author, Burnett maintained homes in both England and America, traveling back and forth quite frequently. Emily Fox-Seton - The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst (1901). ![]() In 1900 Burnett married actor Stephen Townsend until 1902 when they got divorced. Swan Burnett, with whom she had two sons, Lionel and Vivian. Here Hodgson began to write, in order to supplement the family income, assuming full responsibility for the family upon the death of her mother, in 1870. She was educated at The Select Seminary for Young Ladies and Gentleman until the age of fifteen, at which point the family ironmongery, then being run by her mother, failed, and the family emigrated to Knoxville, Tennessee. Frances Eliza Hodgson was the daughter of ironmonger Edwin Hodgson, who died three years after her birth, and his wife Eliza Boond. Burnetts two-part rags-to-riches tale, Emily Fox-Seton (1901), presents the story of a well-mannered but impoverished lady who. ![]()
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