Frances Eliza Hodgson was born on November 24, 1849 in Manchester, England, the third of five born to Eliza Boond and Edwin Hodgson. After his death in 1852, she decided to move her family to America. They settled near Knoxville, Tennessee in 1865.
In order for her to make a living and to support her family, she put her creative writing skills into something useful-making stories. She wrote short stories, and some even appeared in Goldey's Lady's Book in 1868. With her mother's death, supporting her 5 other siblings became harder, but she was getting regular income for her writing. She then married doctor Swann Burnett on September 1873 and had two sons, Lionel and Vivian.
She had stories published on magazines such as St. Nicholas Magazine, Scribner's Monthly and Harpner's Bazaar. Then she started on writing novels including The Lass O’Lowries (1876), Haworth (1879), A Fair Barbarian (1881), a play co-authored with William Gillette Esmeralda (1881),Through One Administration (1883), and Sara Crewe (1888). But her reputation was known only when Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) was out.
Burnett was often sick, due to the pressure of her career and her being the main financial source of the family. Her marriage wasn't all that great either, and with the death of her son Lionel in 1890, she was in serious depression. The book The White People (1920) was dedicated to him. She was, after being apart and distant to her husband, a divorced woman by 1898.
Locking herself in her home in England, she wrote The Secret Garden and wrote often in the garden. She pursued gardening and wrote other works that include The One I Knew Best Of All (memoir, 1893), A Lady of Quality (1896), His Grace of Osmonde (1897), Emily Fox-Seton (1901), A Little Princess (the revised version of Sara Crewe, 1905), and The Shuttle (1906). She moved back to America in 1909 and continued to write. Other works are called The Dawn of Tomorrow (1909), T. Tembarom (1913), The Lost Prince (1915), Robin(1922), and The Head of the House of Coombe (1922).
On October 29, Frances passed away in Plandom, New York and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery, Nassau County, New York State, next to her son Vivian and a statue of Lionel nearby.
Source: http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/
In order for her to make a living and to support her family, she put her creative writing skills into something useful-making stories. She wrote short stories, and some even appeared in Goldey's Lady's Book in 1868. With her mother's death, supporting her 5 other siblings became harder, but she was getting regular income for her writing. She then married doctor Swann Burnett on September 1873 and had two sons, Lionel and Vivian.
She had stories published on magazines such as St. Nicholas Magazine, Scribner's Monthly and Harpner's Bazaar. Then she started on writing novels including The Lass O’Lowries (1876), Haworth (1879), A Fair Barbarian (1881), a play co-authored with William Gillette Esmeralda (1881),Through One Administration (1883), and Sara Crewe (1888). But her reputation was known only when Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) was out.
Burnett was often sick, due to the pressure of her career and her being the main financial source of the family. Her marriage wasn't all that great either, and with the death of her son Lionel in 1890, she was in serious depression. The book The White People (1920) was dedicated to him. She was, after being apart and distant to her husband, a divorced woman by 1898.
Locking herself in her home in England, she wrote The Secret Garden and wrote often in the garden. She pursued gardening and wrote other works that include The One I Knew Best Of All (memoir, 1893), A Lady of Quality (1896), His Grace of Osmonde (1897), Emily Fox-Seton (1901), A Little Princess (the revised version of Sara Crewe, 1905), and The Shuttle (1906). She moved back to America in 1909 and continued to write. Other works are called The Dawn of Tomorrow (1909), T. Tembarom (1913), The Lost Prince (1915), Robin(1922), and The Head of the House of Coombe (1922).
On October 29, Frances passed away in Plandom, New York and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery, Nassau County, New York State, next to her son Vivian and a statue of Lionel nearby.
Source: http://www.online-literature.com/burnett/