Frances Freeling Broderip

Born Frances Freeling Hood on September 11, 1830, at Winchmore Hill, Middlesex, she was an English children's writer who later became Frances Freeling Broderip after marrying the Rev. John Somerville Broderip in 1849. She was the daughter of the poet Thomas Hood and Jane Reynolds Hood, and she grew up in a literary family that also included her brother Tom Hood.

She wrote verse and stories for young readers, with books including Way-Side Fancies and Funny Fables for Little Folks. Sources also note that she edited or helped preserve her father's work, which adds to her place in Victorian literary history.

Frances Freeling Broderip died on November 3, 1878, at Clevedon, Somerset. While she is not as widely remembered as some of her contemporaries, she remains of interest for her children's writing and for her connection to one of the best-known literary families of the period.