Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Frances Hodgson (1849-), an English-American novelist. She was born in Manchester, England. While a young woman, she came to America, where she married Dr. S. M. Burnett. Divorced from him in 1898, she married Stephen Townsend, an English writer. Mrs. Burnett, as she is usually called, spends a part of each year in England, but most of her literary work has been done in the United States. Her first literary success was That Lass o' Lowrie's, which apeared serially in Scribner's Magazine. Her most famous story is Little Lord Fauntleroy, which has been very popular both in book form and as dramatized. Other novels are Louisiana, Haworth's, and A Fair Barbarian. Sara Crewe and Little Saint Elizabeth are stories of child life.