Frances hodgson burnett mini biography of stalingrad

Frances Hodgson Burnett, one of the best-known children's writers of the early twentieth century, wrote such classic novels for young readers as A Little Princessand The Secret Garden.

Burnett was born Frances Eliza Hodgson in 1849 in Manchester, England.

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She moved to Tennessee in the United States with her family after her father's death. Though her family emigrated from England largely for economic reasons, they struggled financially, and later Hodgson would engage with themes of childhood poverty and deprivation in her novels.

She married Swan Burnett in 1873, while her writing career was in its early days. During this period she published stories in such popular publications as Godey's Ladies Book and Scribner's Monthly. It was in Scribner's that her first novel, That Lass O' Lowrie's, was published in serialized form.

Following this first novel, Burnett wrote several more novels including Haworth'