Burnett would later say, “Between the lines of every story there is another story. Like nearly all Burnett’s stories, its theme is the reversal of fortune.” Still. It was a story drawing on some of her experiences as a child at the Miss Hadfields’ school in Manchester, but was set in London. Nicholas the short story, “Sara Crewe first appeared in 1887. Says Twentieth-Century Children’s Writers, in the publication St. There were actually three versions of this story in the end. However, Sara does not break, and with the help of a monkey, an Indian lascar, and the strange, ailing gentleman next door, she not only survives her sufferings but helps those around her.” But one day, Sara’s father dies, and her world suddenly collapses around her. Miss Minchin, headmistress of Sara’s new boarding school in London, is pleased to treat Sara her star pupil as a pampered little princess. She is a gifted and well-mannered child, and Captain Crewe, her father, is an extraordinary wealthy man. The plot description from the publisher reads, “In Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic tale, Sara Crewe learns that deep down, being a real princess is an attitude of the heart.
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