Born in 1849 at 385 Cheetham Hill Road in Manchester, the daughter of a small shopkeeper. Decline in the cotton industry led to diminishing fortunes after her father had died, at which time her mother sold up and moved them to Tennessee to live with her brother. Frances began to write short stories based on those in popular English magazines, with immediate success and recognition. After her marriage to a local doctor, her literary success conflicted with his work and they divorced in 1898. Her most famous novels were "That Lass o' Lowries" (1877), "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (1886) and "The Secret Garden" (1909). A controversial figure in later life, due to her strong-mindedness and her devotion to mystic cults. She died in 1924.
Genres: Children's Fiction, Inspirational
Novels
Hearts and Diamonds (1868)
Miss Carruther's Engagement (1868)
One Day At Arle (1872)
One Quiet Episode (1872)
Dorothea (1873)
aka Dolly
The Woman who Saved Me (1873)
Nobody but Jane Rossiter (1875)
Notwithstanding (1877)
That Lass o' Lowries (1877)
Haworth's (1879)
A Fair Barbarian (1881)
Through One Administration (1881)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886)
A Lady of Quality (1896)
A Little Princess (1905)
The Land of the Blue Flower (1909)
The Secret Garden (1909) (with Linda Chapman)
The Making of a Marchioness (1911)
The White People (1911)
T. Tembaron (1913)
The Lost Prince (1914)
The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1915)
The Little Hunchback Zia (1915)
The Pretty Sister of Jose (1915)
The Head of the House of Combe (1922)
Robin (1922)
Return to the Secret Garden (1998) (with Susan Moody)
Miss Carruther's Engagement (1868)
One Day At Arle (1872)
One Quiet Episode (1872)
Dorothea (1873)
aka Dolly
The Woman who Saved Me (1873)
Nobody but Jane Rossiter (1875)
Notwithstanding (1877)
That Lass o' Lowries (1877)
Haworth's (1879)
A Fair Barbarian (1881)
Through One Administration (1881)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886)
A Lady of Quality (1896)
A Little Princess (1905)
The Land of the Blue Flower (1909)
The Secret Garden (1909) (with Linda Chapman)
The Making of a Marchioness (1911)
The White People (1911)
T. Tembaron (1913)
The Lost Prince (1914)
The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1915)
The Little Hunchback Zia (1915)
The Pretty Sister of Jose (1915)
The Head of the House of Combe (1922)
Robin (1922)
Return to the Secret Garden (1998) (with Susan Moody)
Omnibus
Incredible Journey / Secret Garden / Little Princess / Railway Children (1997) (with Mary Hayley Bell, Sheila Burnford and L M Montgomery)
Secret Garden / Little Princess (2010)
Children's Classics Collection (2018) (with Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll and L M Montgomery)
The Secret Garden / A Little Princess / Little Lord Fauntleroy (2019)
Secret Garden / Little Princess (2010)
Children's Classics Collection (2018) (with Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll and L M Montgomery)
The Secret Garden / A Little Princess / Little Lord Fauntleroy (2019)
Collections
Surly Tim (1872)
Jarl's Daughter (1879)
Natalie (1879)
Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories (2021)
Jarl's Daughter (1879)
Natalie (1879)
Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories (2021)
Books about Frances Hodgson Burnett
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