Frances Hodgson Burnett reduced income, Eliza had to give up their family home and moved with her children to live with relatives in Seedley Grove, Tanners Lane, Pendleton, Salford, where they lived in a house with a large enclosed garden in which Frances enjoyed playing. For a year Frances went to a small dame school run by two women, where she first saw a book about fairies. When her mother moved the family to Islington Square, Salford, Frances mourned the lack of flowers and gardens. Their new home was located in a gated square of faded gentility adjacent to an area with severe
The Head of the House of Coombe The Head of the House of Coombe The Head of the House of Coombe is a 1922 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. "The Head of the House of Coombe" follows the relationships between a group of pre–World War One English nobles and commoners. It also offers editorial commentary on the political system in prewar Europe that Burnett feels bears some responsibility for the war, and some pointed social commentary . Burnett wrote a 1922 sequel to "The Head of the House of Coombe", "Robin ", which completes the story of Robin, Lord Coombe, Donal and Feather. Lord Coombe is considered