Little Lord Fauntleroy

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Simon and Schuster, 2004 - Juvenile Fiction - 261 pages
At the age of sixteen Frances Hodgson Burnett moved to Tennessee with her bankrupt family and began writing for American magazines as means to support herself. Over two decades later Burnett published Little Lord Fauntleroy, modeling the character after her son Vivian. Burnett's text and Reginald Birch's original illustrations helped popularize a very romantic style of dress for boys -- a velvet suit with a broad lace collar -- in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
 

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A GREAT SURPRISE
1
CEDRICS FRIENDS
16
LEAVING HOME
52
IN ENGLAND
61
AT THE CASTLE
78
THE EARL AND HIS GRANDSON
108
AT CHURCH
141
LEARNING TO RIDE
152
THE POOR COTTAGES
166
THE EARL ALARMED
176
ANXIETY IN AMERICA
204
THE RIVAL CLAIMANTS
221
DICK TO THE RESCUE
235
THE EXPOSURE
244
HIS EIGHTH BIRTHDAY
251

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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) was born in Manchester, England, but moved to America as a teenager. A gifted writer from childhood, Burnett took to writing as a means of supporting her family, creating stories for Lady’s Book, Harper’s Bazaar, and other magazines. Though she began writing novels for adults, she gained lasting success writing for children. She is best known for Little Lord Fauntleroy (1855–1856), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). Polly Horvath is the Newbery Honor author of Everything on a Waffle. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.