Burnett, Frances Hodgson, novelist, born in Manchester, resident for a time in America; wrote “That Lass o' Lowrie's,” and other stories of Lancashire manufacturing life, characterised by shrewd observation, pathos, and descriptive power; (b. 1849).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Burnet, Thomas * Burney, Charles