Who is Little Lord Fauntleroy?
Little Lord Fauntleroy is a book concerning the title character, also known as Cedric Errol. The book was first published in serial form in 1885, and has since been a popular children’s book, though popularity has waned. The author, Frances Hodgson Burnett, was an English-born American writer, whose other popular children’s books The Secret Garden and The Little Princess have received much attention. Little Lord Fauntleroy is the loving, and sentimental young child who finds he is the heir to the earldom of Dorincourt. Since Fauntleroy has grown up in relative poverty with his widowed mother in America, his response to inheriting an earldom is mixed. His grandfather, the current earl, convinces Cedric’s mother to allow him to be raised in England. Yet the grandfather refuses to have anything to do with Cedric’s mother, since he feels his deceased and most beloved son made a poor match by marrying an American.
