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English playwright and author. She is best known for her childrens stories; in particular The Secret Garden; A Little Princess; and Little Lord Fauntleroy.Born Frances Eliza Hodgson; she lived in Cheetham Hill; Manchester. After the death of her father the family was forced to sell their home; and suffered economic hardship. Until she was sixteen she lived in Salford; and when she was sixteen the family emigrated to Knoxville; Tennessee. There Burnett turned to writing to help earn money for the family; publishing stories in magazines by the time she was nineteen. In 1872 she married Swan Burnett. They lived in Paris for two years where their two sons were born; before returning to the United States to live in Washington D.C. There she began to write novels; the first of which That Lass o Lowries; was published to good reviews. The publication of Little Lord Fauntleroy in 1886 made her a popular writer of childrens fiction; although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Little Princess.