Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was born in 1849 in Cheetham, England. She was one of the best Anglo-Saxon writers.

Amongst readers, she was appreciated for her children's stories and the most popular are "Little Lord Fauntleroy", "A little princess" and "The Secret Garden".

After her father died, her whole family moved from England to the USA and lived in Knoxville. Soon she started writing because she wanted to help her family with the bills. She started publishing in magazines when she was 19.

In 1870 her mother died and she married Swan Burnett 2 years later. The young family lived in Paris where her two sons were born. After that, they moved back to America, to Washington, where she started writing novels that the critics adored.

Even though she became famous when she published "Little Lord Fauntleroy" she was popular because the novel that she wrote in the 1890s.

She enjoyed a glamorous lifestyle and enjoyed her travels through England. In 1890 she bought a house in England and wrote "The Secret Garden". Soon afterward her oldest son Lionel suffers from tuberculosis. His death left a great mark on her and she had problems with depression.

In 1898 she divorced Swan Burnett and in 1900 she married Stephen Townsend who she also divorced after two years.

She died on Long Island in 1924.