She soon embarked on a writing career that would make her one of the most successful authors of the era and fund further peregrinations, resulting in her residence at one time or another in Paris, Washington, D.C., London and Kent in England, and Plandome, New York, where she died in 1924.Īlthough she wrote a number of popular novels and plays for adults, Burnett was most famous in her lifetime for Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), a tale for young readers whose protagonist, an American boy in straitened circumstances, unexpectedly becomes heir to an English earldom and steps into the traditions - replete with velvet suits and flowing locks - his new position entails. Frances Hodgson (later Burnett) emigrated with her family from Manchester, England, to Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1865, when she was sixteen years old.
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