WRITER

Frances Hodgson Burnett

1849 - 1924

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Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frances Hodgson Burnett has received more than 1,423,280 page views. Her biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Frances Hodgson Burnett is the 507th most popular writer (down from 455th in 2019), the 361st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 351st in 2019) and the 42nd most popular British Writer.

Frances Hodgson Burnett is most famous for her children's novels The Secret Garden and A Little Princess.

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  • 66.78

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  • 54

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  • 7.50

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  • 3.67

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Notable Works

A Fair Barbarian
1881
The Secret Garden
Juvenile Nonfiction
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
19114 / 5
A Lady of Quality
1896
A little princess
Juvenile Fiction
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
19055 / 5
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Americans
An American boy goes to live with his grandfather in England where he becomes heir to a title and a fortune.
18864 / 5
The Lost Prince
1915

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Frances Hodgson Burnett ranks 507 out of 7,302. Before her are Gérard de Nerval, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Thomas Paine, Baldassare Castiglione, Philip Larkin, and Anthony Burgess. After her are Anaïs Nin, Robert A. Heinlein, Statius, Alfred Jarry, Camille Flammarion, and Gabriele Amorth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Frances Hodgson Burnett ranks 7. Before her are Ivan Pavlov, August Strindberg, Muhammad Abduh, August von Mackensen, Édouard-Henri Avril, and Felix Klein. After her are Bernhard von Bülow, John William Waterhouse, Alfred von Tirpitz, Sergei Witte, Bertha Benz, and Nogi Maresuke. Among people deceased in 1924, Frances Hodgson Burnett ranks 12. Before her are Joseph Conrad, Louis Sullivan, Alfred Marshall, Gabriel Fauré, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, and Carl Spitteler. After her are George Mallory, Ferdinand Cheval, Ferruccio Busoni, Robert Nivelle, Eleonora Duse, and Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frances Hodgson Burnett ranks 361 out of 8,785. Before her are Richard Wright (1943), Christopher Nolan (1970), Colin Firth (1960), Benny Hill (1924), Philip Larkin (1922), and Anthony Burgess (1917). After her are Joseph Merrick (1862), Theresa May (1956), Arthur Balfour (1848), Henry Moore (1898), Francis William Aston (1877), and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Frances Hodgson Burnett ranks 42. Before her are Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), G. K. Chesterton (1874), Christopher Marlowe (1564), Thomas Paine (1737), Philip Larkin (1922), and Anthony Burgess (1917). After her are Harold Pinter (1930), Robert Burns (1759), George Eliot (1819), A. A. Milne (1882), Enid Blyton (1897), and Samuel Butler (1835).

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