Frances Freeling Broderip (née Hood) (11 September 1830[1] – 3 November 1878) was an English children's writer.
[2] She was named after her father's friend, Sir Francis Freeling, the secretary to the general post office.
Her husband was born at Wells, Somersetshire, in 1814, educated at Eton, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his B.A.
[3] In 1857 Mrs. Broderip commenced her literary career by the publication of Wayside Fancies, which was followed in 1860 by Funny Fables for Little Folks, the first of a series of her works to which the illustrations were supplied by her brother, Tom Hood.
She also, in conjunction with her brother, published in a collected form The Works of T. Hood, 1869–73, 10 vols.