Frances Hodgson Burnett 
How Fauntleroy Occurred & Little Lord Fauntleroy (Illustrated Edition) 
Children’s Classic & The Story Behind It

‘Little Lord Fauntleroy’ – 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 with a message from Cedric’s grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, an unruly millionaire who despises the United States. With the deaths of his father’s elder brothers, Cedric has now inherited the title Lord Fauntleroy and is the heir to the earldom and a vast estate. Cedric’s grandfather takes him to live in England and be educated as an English aristocrat.
‘How Fauntleroy Occurred, and a Very Real Little Boy Became an Ideal One’ is a story written by Frances Burnett in which she compared her famous creation Little Lord Fauntleroy and her youngest son Vivian. In many ways Vivian served as an inspiration for creating the fictional character Cedric Errol. Later in life he wanted to escape from those comparisons and separates himself from the fictional characters, but it was hard to shake them off.

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Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was a British novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children’s novels Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden, although her romantic adult novels were also popular, according to list of bestselling novels in the United States. Burnett was well known in Washington society and hosted a literary salon on Tuesday evenings, often attended by politicians, as well as local literati. She enjoyed socializing and lived a lavish lifestyle. She traveled to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there, where she wrote The Secret Garden.