![]() ![]() One day, they are visited by an English lawyer named Havisham with a message from young Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, a millionaire who despises the United States and was very disappointed when his youngest son married an American woman. In a shabby New York City side street in the mid-1880s, young Cedric Errol lives with his mother (known to him as "Dearest") in genteel poverty after the death of his father, Captain Cedric Errol. It is attested as a real surname since the 13th Century. More proximally, it is from a Middle English variant faunt from enfaunt, meaning child or infant. The title surname Fauntleroy is an Anglo-French term ultimately derived from Le enfant le roy ("child of the king"), evoking the image of being pampered and spoiled. Seebohm over the rights to theatrical adaptations of the work. ![]() Birch set fashion trends and the novel set a precedent in copyright law when Burnett won a lawsuit in 1888 against E. ![]() Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's (the publisher of St. Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. ![]()
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