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BURNETT, FRANCES ELIZA HODGSON (1849– )

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BURNETT, FRANCES ELIZA HODGSON (1849– )

BURNETT, FRANCES ELIZA See also:
HODGSON, BRIAN HOUGHTON (1800-1894)
HODGSON (1849– ) , Anglo-See also:

AMERICAN

American novelist, whose See also:

MAIDEN, or MAID

maiden name was Hodgson, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

Manchester, See also:

England, on the 24th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1849; she went to See also:

AMERICA

America with her parents, who settled in See also:

KNOXVILLE

Knoxville, See also:

TENNESSEE

Tennessee, in 1865. See also:

MISS

Miss Hodgson soon began to write stories for magazines. In 1873 she married Dr L. M. Burnett of See also:

Washington, whom she afterwards (1898) divorced. Her reputation as a novelist was made by her remarkable See also:

TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale of See also:

LANCASHIRE

Lancashire See also:

LIFE

life, That Lass o' Lowrie's (1877), and a number of other volumes followed, of which the best were Through one See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

Administration (1883) and A See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady of Quality (1896). In 1886 she attained a new popularity by her charming See also:

story of Little See also:

Lord See also:

FAUNTLEROY, HENRY (1785–1824)

Fauntleroy, and this led to other stories of See also:

child-life. Little Lord Fauntleroy was dramatized (see See also:

GREAT

great success on the See also:

STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage; and other dramas by her were also produced. In 1900 she married a second See also:

time, her See also:

HUSBAND

husband being Mr See also:

Stephen Townesend, a surgeon, who (as Will See also:

DENNIS, JOHN (1657—1734)

Dennis ) had taken to the stage and had collaborated with her in some of her plays.

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