Hodgson Burnett, Frances: - Frances Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright.
A few years later she settled in Nassau County, New York, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery..
She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898, married Stephen Townsend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902.
Her elder son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1890, which caused a relapse of the depression she had struggled with for much of her life.
Beginning in the 1880s, Burnett began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there, where she wrote The Secret Garden.
She is best known for the three children\'s novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
Hodgson Burnett, Frances: - Frances Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright
