Little Lord Fauntleroy was incredibly popular when it first appeared in print–so popular that it inspired a new fashion, the Fauntleroy suit, modeled after the outfit Cedric wears in the book. But the new little Lord Fauntleroy’s sweet temperament and belief in the inherent goodness of everyone begins to change the Earl for the better. The Earl is a crotchety old man, known for living only ever to please himself. Errol for being an American and marrying his son. He is now the heir to his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, and must move to England to be trained to take over the estate–despite the fact that the Earl despises Mrs. One day, the news arrives that his uncles, like his father, are dead. It tells the story of seven-year-old Cedric Errol who lives in New York with his widowed mother. Frances Hodgson Burnett’s children’s novel Little Lord Fauntleroy was serialized from 1885-1886.
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