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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- First published
- 1906
- Pages
- 512
- Publisher
- Copp, Clark, Grosset & Dunlap, Persephone Books Ltd
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780548025680
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Frances Hodgson Burnett was best known as an English playwright and author. Frances Eliza Hodgson was born on November 24, 1849, at Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England, to Eliza Boond and Edwin Hodgson. She was the middle child of five, with two older brothers and two younger sisters. Frances grew up in a comfortable home. Mr. Hodgson sold brass goods to upper class households, and the family had a maid, a nurse-maid, and a horse and carriage. However, in the early 1850's when Frances was only three or four years old, her father died of a stroke, and the family was forced to sell their house and move. Her mother carried on the business, and Frances was often left in the care of her grandmothe
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