The Pretty Sister of Jose (1889) is a romance set in Spain. The novel was penned by Frances Hodgson Burnett, an author better known for such British-based fare as Little Lord Fauntleroy. The Pretty Sister of Jose is the daughter of a philandering Spanish aristocrat. Soured on all men because of her father's behavior, the heroine spurns every one of her suitors. That the "right man" eventually comes along is as inevitable as the sun rising in the East.