Emily Fox-Seton: Being The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Grosset, 1901 - Fiction - 429 pages

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 26
• Section 3: 44
• Section 4: 79
• Section 5: 91
• Section 6: 105
• Section 7: 127
• Section 8: 172
• Section 9: 180
• Section 10: 193
• Section 11: 204
• Section 12: 221
• Section 13: 234
• Section 14: 246
• Section 15: 257
• Section 16: 295
• Section 17: 310
• Section 18: 322
• Section 19: 340
• Section 20: 351
• Section 21: 370
• Section 22: 382
• Section 23: 400
• Section 24: 425

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About the author

Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote for children and adults, publishing both plays and novels. She was born in Manchester, England, on November 24, 1849. Her father, who owned a furniture store, died when she was only four years old. Her mother struggled to keep the family business running while trying to raise five children. Finally, because of the failing Manchester economy, the family sold the store and immigrated to the United States. In 1865 they settled just outside of Knoxville, Tennessee. Hoping to offset her family's continuing financial troubles, Burnett began to submit her stories to women's magazines. She was immediately successful. In the late 1860s her stories were published in nearly every popular American magazine. Burnett helped to support her family with income from the sale of her stories, even saving enough to finance a trip back to England, where she stayed for over a year. In 1879, Burnett published her first stories for children; two of her most popular are A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. In contrast to an extremely successful career, Burnett's personal life held many challenges. Her son Lionel was diagnosed with tuberculosis at age 15, from which he never recovered. His death inspired several stories about dead or dying children. Burnett lived her later years on Long Island, New York. She died in 1924.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Emily Fox-Seton: Being The Making of a Marchioness and The Methods of Lady Walderhurst
• Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Publisher: Grosset, 1901
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: Nov 22, 2006
• ISBN: 1421968622, 9781421968629
• Length: 429 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General