Born as Frances Eliza Hodgson in Cheetham Hill on the edge of Manchester on 24 November 1849 and author of Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden.
She died, aged 74 years, on 29 October 1924 at her home, 'Fairseat', Plandome Park, Long Island, USA and was buried in Roslyn Cemetery, Northern Boulevard, Greenvale, Nassau County, New York. Our picture source gives a biography of her life.
We understand there is a statue/memorial to her in Central Park, New York.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Novelist and playwright. Born Jerome Clapp Jerome at Bradford Street, Walsall, Staffordshire. He supposedly changed his middle name to Klapka in homage to General George Klapka, a hero of the Hunga...
Actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer with professional name Stephen Fry. Born on 24 August 1957, the second of the three children of Alan John Fry (1930-2019) and Marianne Ev...
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Novel written by Leonard Woolf, published 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial civil servant in British-controlled Ceylon, but unusually written from the native point of view.
The second of the Sherlock Holmes novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally called the Sign of The Four, it has a complex plot involving the East India Company, the Indian Rebellion of 1...
Poet and story writer. Born: Bombay, India. Died: London. See Waterloo Free Buffet. 2021: The Guardian reported some updates to English Heritage's information on Kipling: "While his children’s sto...
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Novelist and poet. Born as Marguerite Radclyffe Hall in Bournemouth into a wealthy family. From 1917 until her death Hall lived with Una Troubridge but had a number of affairs with other women. T...
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