Quote by: Frances Hodgson Burnett

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.


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Author Bio


  • NameFrances Hodgson Burnett
  • DescriptionEnglish playwright and author
  • AliasesFrances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
  • BornNovember 24, 1849
  • DiedOctober 29, 1924
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionDramaturge; Writer; Playwright; Children's Writer; Novelist
  • WorksLittle Lord Fauntleroy; A Little Princess; The Secret Garden