Sara Crewe, a wealthy captain's daughter at a London boarding school, is reduced to servitude when her father dies, but sustains herself through imagination and quiet dignity.
Books mentioned in A Little Princess (3)
The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle: “It was a book about the French Revolution, and she was soon lost in a harrowing picture of the prisoners in the Bastille--men who had spent so many years in dungeons that when they were dragged out by those who rescued them, their long, gray hair and beards almost hid their faces, and they had…”
Sleeping Beauty: “like the Sleeping Beauty, slumbering for a hundred years.”
Books that mention A Little Princess (2)
So Big by Edna Ferber: “a sort of mixture of Dick Swiveller’s Marchioness and Sarah Crewe.”
How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis: “The heroine of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1905 riches–rags–riches novel A Little Princess is not actually a princess, but her horrid headmistress thinks that because she’s rich she must be as spoilt as a princess (she is not) and the school’s downtrodden scullery maid,”