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The chaplain gave such a start as made him drop his shovel hat. "Mistress!" And this was she-this fine young creature who was tall and grandly enough built and knit to seem a radiant being even when clad in masculine attire. He picked up his hat and bowed so low that it almost... Read Full Overview

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 Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett

From the author of the children's classics The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy comes this richly atmospheric novel for adults about a tempestuous heroine in the days of Queen Anne.
Sir Jeoffry Wildairs is disappointed once again with... Read Full Overview

On a wintry morning at the close of 1690, the sun shining faint and red through a light fog, there was a great noise of baying dogs, loud voices, and trampling of horses in the courtyard at Wildairs Hall; Sir Jeoffry being about to go forth a-hunting, and being a man with a choleric... Read Full Overview

A Lady of Quality is a novel published in 1896 by Frances Hodgson Burnett that was the second highest best-selling book in the United States in 1896. It was the first of series of successful historical novels by Burnett. In addition to a play version of the novel, which debuted... Read Full Overview

A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett , 1896. Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849 - 1924) was born in Manchester, England. Afterher father died in 1852, the family fell on straitened circumstancesand in 1865 immigrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville,Tennessee.Her... Read Full Overview

CONTENTS I. The twenty-fourth day of November 1690, Page 1 II. In which Sir Jeoffry encounters his offspring, Page 4 III. Wherein Sir Jeoffry's boon companions drink a toast, Page 9 ... XXIV. The doves sate upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooed, Page 115 I. THE TWENTY-FOURTH... Read Full Overview

This Book "A Lady of Quality;Being a Most Curious, Hitherto Unknown History, as Related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff but Not Presented to the World of Fashion Through the Pages of The Tatler, and Now for the First Time Written Down" has been considered important throughout the human... Read Full Overview

CONTENTSI. The twenty-fourth day of November 1690, Page 1II. In which Sir Jeoffry encounters his offspring, Page 4III. Wherein Sir Jeoffry's boon companions drink a toast, Page 9 ...XXIV. The doves sate upon the window-ledge and lowly cooed and cooed, Page 115I. THE TWENTY-FOURTH... Read Full Overview

Frances Eliza Hodgson was the daughter of ironmonger Edwin Hodgson, who died three years after her birth, and his wife Eliza Boond. She was educated at The Select Seminary for Young Ladies and Gentleman until the age of fifteen, at which point the family ironmongery, then being... Read Full Overview