Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by the English-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, her first children's novel. November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's in 1886.In a shabby New York City side street in the mid-1880s, young Cedric Errol lives with his mother in genteel poverty after the death of his father, Captain Cedric Errol. One day, they are visited by an English lawyer named Havisham with a message from young Cedric's...