Little Lord Fauntleroy

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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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Little Lord Fauntleroy is a sweet tale about a father-less, American boy named Cedric who finds himself the heir to an English earldom. The story is sorta in the vein of other classic books, like Anne ...

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I am always at something of a loss to explain my abiding love for Little Lord Fauntleroy, which must be included, along with The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, among the author's better known ...

Contents

• A Great Surprise: 1
• Cedrics Friends: 16
• Leaving Home: 52
• In England: 61
• At the Castle: 68
• The Earl and his Grandson: 108
• At Church: 141
• Learning to Ride: 152
• The Poor Cottages: 166
• The Earl Alarmed: 176
• Anxiety in America: 205
• The Rival Claimants: 221
• Dick to the Rescue: 235
• The Exposure: 244
• His Eighth Birthday: 251

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.

Polly Horvath is the Newbery Honor author of "Everything on a Waffle." She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Little Lord Fauntleroy; Aladdin Classics
• Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Contributor: Polly Horvath
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2004
• ISBN: 0689869940, 9780689869945
• Length: 261 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Classics; Juvenile Fiction / Family / Multigenerational