Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London School, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
Frances Hodgson Burnett. CONTENTS AUTHOR FILE WHO'S WHO IN A LITTLE PRINCESS SOME THINGS TO THINK ABOUT . . . SOME THINGS TO DO . . . GLOSSARY AUTHOR FILE NAME: Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett BORN: 24 November.
Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe tries to make friends at boarding school and settle in.
Sara Crewe's privileged status at her boarding school ends when her father dies. Left penniless, Sara retains her pluck and optimism, which attract the notice of a mysterious benefactor.
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor. Simultaneous.
When Sara Crewe is sent back from India to school in England, she appears to have everything; not just wealth, but a loving heart and a quick imagination. But circumstances change, and when poverty strikes, it is difficult to cope.
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Sara Crewe's young but doting father sends her to a London boarding school when she is seven.
According to Burnett, after she composed the 1902 play A Little Un-fairy Princess based on that story, her publisher asked that she expand the story as a novel with "the things and people that had been left out before".[4] The novel was ...
According to Burnett, she had been composing a play based on the story when she found out a lot of characters she had missed. The publisher asked her to publish a new, revised story of the novella, producing the novel.