Little Lord Fauntleroy
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Little Lord Fauntleroy is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's on Octob
First edition cover
An illustration by Birch from 1886
Lobby card from the 1921 film adaptation starring Mary Pickford
Elsie Leslie in the Broadway production of Little Lord Fauntleroy (1888).
Buster Brown suit
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A Buster Brown suit was a very popular style of clothing for young boys in the United States during the early 20th century. It was named after the comic strip character Buster Brown, created in 1902 b
Little Lord Fauntleroy
…him to be. Cedric is happily reunited with his mother and with Mr. Hobbs, who decides to stay to help look after Cedric. The Fauntleroy suit (see also Buster Brown suit), so well described by Burnett and realised in Reginald Birch's detailed pen-and-ink drawings, created a fad for formal dress for American middle-class…
Portrait of Edward, Prince of Wales by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1846