classic starts a little princess frances hodgson burnett

In his smart suit inspired her to write her book Little Lord Fauntleroy. Her other son, Vivian, lived and Frances once made him a real velvet suit. Thinking about her own son and wishing that his sickness could have been cured. When she wrote about Colin in The Secret Garden Frances might have been In 1890, something very sad happened and Frances‘s son, Lionel, died at the age of sixteen. Many newspapers and magazines were interested in her private life and wrote about her, much like they do about celebrities today. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve-all at an incomparable price. The stories are abridged the quality is complete. It was unusual for a woman to earn her own money and support her family in the way that Frances did so people in nineteenth-century England and America were very surprised. Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. Frances’s two sons, Lionel and Vivian, would sleep beneath her desk as toddlers.

When she married a man called Swan Burnett in 1872, she kept up her writing. Marvellously, her story was accepted and from that day forward sheīecame the breadwinner in her family, writing up to six stories a month. She wrote out a romantic tale and sent it off to a magazine. And then in 1868, at the age of eighteen, she went out with her sister to pick grapes and made enough money from that job to buy paper and stamps. Life there was harsh and they were quite poor but the young Frances would entertain herself and her siblings with stories. Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in 1849 in Manchester but when her father died Frances’s mother emigrated with her sons and daughters to Tennessee in the United States.

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