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Books: Blighted by the curse of Fauntleroy

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20040620
Author:Judith Flanders

Frances Hodgson Burnett

By Gretchen Gerzina

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In 1889 Compton Mackenzie, later the author of Whisky Galore, suffered a childhood trauma, aged six: "The Lord Fauntleroy costume of black velvet and Vandyke collar was a curse. The other boys at the dancing class were all in white tops... After protesting in vain against being made to wear it I decided to make it unwearable by flinging myself down in the gutter on the way to dancing class... not only did I avoid the dancing class, but I also avoided being photographed in that infernal get-up."

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