Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Lord Fauntleroy annotated Frances Hodgson Burnett

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 grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, an unruly millionaire who despises the United States and was very disappointed when his youngest son married an American woman. He offers his son's widow a house and guaranteed income, but he refuses to have anything to do with her, even after she declines his money.