BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. Little Lord Fauntleroy.

London: Warne, 1899. Fourteenth edition. Large post octavo. pp. xi, [1], 269, [1], 6 (Advertisement). Green pictorial cloth. Mild foxing to prelims. A fine copy.
Handsomely illustrated throughout by C.E. Brock.
Born in Manchester, England on November 24 1849, Frances Eliza Hodgson was the eldest daughter in a family of two boys and three girls. After her father’s death when she was three years old, the Hodgsons experienced severe financial difficulties. As a young girl, she would scrawl little stories on sheets of old notebooks, as she was unable to afford proper writing materials. In 1865 the family moved to Tennessee where they lived in a log cabin and the teenage Frances set up a little school. She began submitting stories to women’s magazines and in a time when most women did not have careers, Frances Eliza Hodgson was a literary success. In 1873 she married Dr. Swan Burnett.