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FRANCES ELIZA HODGSON BURNETT (1849– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 853 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HODGSON See also:BURNETT (1849– )  , Anglo-See also:American novelist, whose See also:maiden name was See also:Hodgson, was See also:born in See also:Manchester, See also:England, on the 24th of See also:November 1849; she went to See also:America with her parents, who settled in See also:Knoxville, See also:Tennessee, in 1865 . See also:Miss Hodgson soon began to write stories for magazines . In 1873 she married Dr L . M . See also:Burnett of See also:Washington, whom she afterwards (1898) divorced . Her reputation as a novelist was made by her remarkable See also:tale of See also:Lancashire See also:life, That Lass o' Lowrie's (1877), and a number of other volumes followed, of which the best were Through one See also:Administration (1883) and A See also:Lady of Quality (1896) . In 1886 she attained a new popularity by her charming See also:story of Little See also:Lord See also:Fauntleroy, and this led to other stories of See also:child-life . Little Lord Fauntleroy was dramatized (see See also:COPYRIGHT for the legal questions involved) and had a See also:great success on the See also:stage; and other dramas by her were also produced . In 1900 she married a second See also:time, her See also:husband being Mr See also:Stephen Townesend, a surgeon, who (as Will See also:Dennis ) had taken to the stage and had collaborated with her in some of her plays .

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