Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was born in Manchester, England, and died in Plandome Manor, New York. She was an author and playwright who became interested in Christian Science in the early 1880s, undertaking a course of study with Anna B. Newman, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's who left the Christian Science movement in 1881. Around the same time that Burnett became interested in Christian Science, she also became interested in Spiritualism and New Thought. This religious experimentation would influence her major works, which included: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885); A Little Princess (1905); and The Secret Garden (1911). There is no record of Burnett uniting with The First Church of Christ, Scientist.

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