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In this manner Slowbridge received the shock which shook it to its foundations, and it was a shock from which it did not recover for some time. Before ten o'clock the next morning, everybody knew of the arrival of Martin Bassett's daughter.The very boarding-school (Miss Pilcher's... Read Full Overview

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Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 - 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).

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A Fair Barbarian is the 1881 romantic comedy by the famous author Franciss Hodgson Burnett.Octavia Bassett of Bloody Gulch, after a breakup with her sweetheart, decides to visit her Aunt Belinda in Slowbridge. Her apparel and automobile shock the inhabitants of Slowbridge, and... Read Full Overview

"A Fair Barbarian" is an ancient Children's romance fiction story book written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Frances Hodgson Burnett's "A Fair Barbarian" is an awesome Victorian novel that blends love with social satire. "A Fair Barbarian" demanding situations traditional notions... Read Full Overview

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​​​​​​​Illustrated with beautiful chapter headings that match the book cover! In Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Fair Barbarian, cultures clash when an affluent American heiress makes a splash in a sleepy British village. Octavia Bassett,... Read Full Overview

Illustrated with beautiful chapter headings that match the book cover

In Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Fair Barbarian, cultures clash when an affluent American heiress makes a splash in a sleepy British village. Octavia Bassett, a spirited young woman who hails... Read Full Overview

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This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

A Fair Barbarian By Frances Hodgson Burnett

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

When the rather genteel and very English village of Slowbridge, whose social life revolves around its extremely conservative and aristocratic female matriarch, finds itself playing host to mills within its vicinity it seems a disaster. Mills mean smoke and dirt and coarse working... Read Full Overview

It may as well be explained, however, at the outset, that it would not take much of a sensation to give Slowbridge a great shock. In the first place, Slowbridge was not used to sensations, and was used to going on the even and respectable tenor of its way, regarding the outside... Read Full Overview