About the author
Frances Hodgson Burnett, American-English novelist and playwright, was born on 24 November 1849 in Manchester, England. She began to write in her teens in order to support her family. She is best known for her three children’s novels, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911). Burnett was also a popular adult novelist, publishing novels including Through One Administration (1883) and A Lady of Quality (1886). She moved to America in the early 1900s and became its citizen. She died on 29 November 1914.
