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| Author: | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| Category: | Enjoying Life [Edit] |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Project Gutenberg |
| Release Date: | 30 Jul 2006 |
| Pages: | 304 |
| File Size: | 1.42 MB |
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| Creation Date: | 20 Jul 2022 |
| Rank: | 585,141 No 1 most popular |
| Short link: | Copy |
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The Author Book Robin and the author of 64 another books.
Frances Eliza Hodgson was the daughter of ironmonger Edwin Hodgson, who died three years after her birth, and his wife Eliza Boond. She was educated at The Select Seminary for Young Ladies and Gentleman until the age of fifteen, at which point the family ironmongery, then being run by her mother, failed, and the family emigrated to Knoxville, Tennessee. Here Hodgson began to write, in order to sup Frances Eliza Hodgson was the daughter of ironmonger Edwin Hodgson, who died three years after her birth, and his wife Eliza Boond. She was educated at The Select Seminary for Young Ladies and Gentleman until the age of fifteen, at which point the family ironmongery, then being run by her mother, failed, and the family emigrated to Knoxville, Tennessee. Here Hodgson began to write, in order to supplement the family income, assuming full responsibility for the family upon the death of her mother, in 1870. In 1872 she married Dr. Swan Burnett, with whom she had two sons, Lionel and Vivian. The marriage was dissolved in 1898. In 1900 Burnett married actor Stephen Townsend until 1902 when they got divorced. Following her great success as a novelist, playwright, and children's author, Burnett maintained homes in both England and America, traveling back and forth quite frequently. She died in her Long Island, New York home, in 1924.
Primarily remembered today for her trio of classic children's novels - Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911) - Burnett was also a popular adult novelist, in her own day, publishing romantic stories such as The Making of a Marchioness (1901) for older readers.
Author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
Title: Robin
Note: Sequel to The head of the house of Coombe.
Language: English
LoC Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject: England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction
Release Date: Jul 30, 2006
Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
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