Swan Burnett

Among local neighbours in Tennessee was the large family of Swan Burnett , a studious and ambitious youth a couple of years older than Frances and lame from a childhood injury, whom she was later...

Frances Hodgson married her childhood sweetheart, Swan Moses Burnett , at his parents' home in New Market, Tennessee, after keeping him waiting in almost Old Testament style for seven years.

The divorce became final between FB and her husband of twenty-five years; they had spent several years strenuously denying rumours in the press of a rift between them.

FHB sailed from the USA for Paris with her husband, Swan Burnett , their six-month-old son , and their black servant Aunt Prissie, a former slave whose surname is not recorded.

After her house in Washington was badly damaged by fire, FHB sailed for London with her sons and her friend Kitty Hall , leaving her husband behind.