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Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by the English-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, her first children's novel. It was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's (the publisher of St. Nicholas) in 1886.[2] The illustrations by Reginald B. Birch set fashion trends and the novel set a precedent in copyright law when Burnett won a lawsuit in 1888 against E. V. Seebohm over the rights to theatrical adaptations of the work.

Growing up in poverty, Cedric Errol, didn’t know how much his life would change in the coming year. A young child living in the United States is now a Lord of an English manor. His grandfather has offered to raise him to be an English gentleman, but Cedric’s mother is not welcome. For the sake of her son, Cedric’s mother or Dearest lets her son go to England. As the boy enters the life of his crusty English grandfather, a change emerges in the old man. Learning from his grandson’s good nature, the old man starts to provide comfort and generosity to his tenants. Will this happy living last? Who is this woman claiming her son is the true Lord of the manor? Will she prove to be right? Sara is a very happy child with a simple life in India that she shares with her father, Captain Crewe. Captain Crewe knows that he cannot provide the quality education that is needed to prepare Sara for a life in high society. Captain Crewe arranges for Sara to have a comfortable living set up in a school in London. Sara is frightened by the stark differences between her native India and her new home in Miss Minchin’s Boarding School for Girls. She quickly adapts and makes new friends including the young servant girl working at the boarding school. During her birthday festivities, Sara receives horrible new that her father has died. To Ms. Minchin’s dismay, Captain Crewe had lost all of his money before he passed to a friend prospecting in diamond mines. To counter her enormous school bill, Ms. Minchin forces Sara to pay off the debt by working as a servant girl. Will Sara ever escape the harsh working conditions? Will she always be a servant girl? Who is the sick old man next door? A newly orphaned child, Mary Lennox, leaves her home in India to move to the cold home of Archibald Craven, an unknown uncle. Mary’s spirit is dower and rude to those around her. Mary learns from her maid that the lady of the house used to have a beautiful garden with roses all around, but her uncle locked the garden when his wife passed away. Mary is resolved to find the garden, but will she do it? Where is it? Will her uncle ever return home? Who is crying in the night? Frances Hodgeson Burnett was born in England in 1849. Due to financial difficulties, her family moved to America. Frances started writing as a teenager and sold her stories to raise money for her family. After her marriage to a medical doctor, Frances was of more secure financial means and was able to travel. Frances and her husband lived in Paris for a time, but returned to the United States after two years. Again becoming restless, Frances purchased a house in England which inspired another famous novel, The Secret Garden. During this time, Frances lost her oldest son to tuberculosis. Frances went into a depression, divorced her husband, and returned to the United States. Frances died in 1924 and is buried in Long Island.

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by the English-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, her first children's novel. It was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's (the publisher of St. Nicholas) in 1886.[2] The illustrations by Reginald B. Birch set fashion trends and the novel set a precedent in copyright law when Burnett won a lawsuit in 1888 against E. V. Seebohm over the rights to theatrical adaptations of the work

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When Cedric Errol, a young, impoverished American boy, loses his father it seems that he and his mother are in a dire situation, until a lawyer representing wealthy English Lord pays a visit offering a new life. It turns out that Cedric is Lord Fauntleroy, heir to a vast estate in England. The Earl of Dorincourt, Cedric’s grandfather, intends to mold to precocious and kind Cedric in to a proper English aristocrat but the dour old Englishman soon finds himself learning about compassion from his ward. Having to deal with a pretender to his title and the Earl’s disdain for his American mother, Cedric must also adapt to his new life and learn to become Lord Fauntleroy. Hugely popular in it’s day, Little Lord Fauntleroy sparked a fashion trend for the suits worn by Cedric and has been called the “Harry Potter of its time”.

In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or "dearest") in genteel poverty after his Father Captain Errol dies. They receive a visit from Havisham, an English lawyer with a message from Cedric's grandfather, Lord Dorincourt. With the deaths of his father's elder brothers, Cedric is now Lord Fauntleroy and heir to the Earldom and a vast estate.

In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or "dearest") in genteel poverty after his Father Captain Errol dies. They receive a visit from Havisham, an English lawyer with a message from Cedric's grandfather, Lord Dorincourt. With the deaths of his father's elder brothers, Cedric is now Lord Fauntleroy and heir to the Earldom and a vast estate.