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Frances Freeling Broderip (née Hood) (11 September 1830 - 3 November 1878) was an English children's writer.

Early life

Broderip, second daughter of Thomas Hood, the poet, who died in 1845, by his wife, Jane Reynolds, who died in 1846, was born at Winchmore Hill, Middlesex, in 1830. She was named after her father's friend, Sir Francis Freeling,

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