Francis Hodgson Burnett ,

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright best known for her children's classics Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). Born in Manchester, England, she moved to Tennessee, USA, at age 15 amid family financial struggles, where she began writing to support her family, achieving fame with works blending realism, fantasy, and themes of resilience and social class.[1][2][3]