A Fair Barbarian (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Whitney, William Dwight Hodgson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1451018053 ISBN 13: 9781451018059

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2012

Synopsis

Slowbeidge had been shaken to its foundations. 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 world with private distrust, if not with open disfavor. The new mills had been a trial to Slowbridge, a sore trial.
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About the Author:

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 - 29 October 1924) was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-6), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, near Manchester, England. After her father died in 1852, the family eventually fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville, Tennessee. There, Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In 1870 her mother died and in 1872 she married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor after which they lived in Paris for two years where their two sons were born before returning to the US to live in Washington D.C. There she began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o' Lowries), was published to good reviews. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess.

Review:

A superior book of its kind-complete with suspense, hectic action and a surprise ending."" -The New York Times Book Review --The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1451018053
• ISBN 13: 9781451018059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266