A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (author) (UK edition)

Without her beloved father and miles from home, it is very hard for Sara Crewe to like her new life at boarding school. Luckily Sara is always dreaming up wonderful things and her power of telling stories wins her lots of friends. When a letter arrives that brings disastrous news, the wicked headmistress Miss Minchin forces Sara to become a servant. Her lovely clothes and toys are taken away from her. She must work from dawn until midnight. How will Sara cope with her new found poverty? Can her imagination help her overcome this horrible situation?

BACKSTORY: Read why Jacqueline Wilson loves this book and find out which pupil of Sara’s school you are most like.

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780099573722

Publisher

Vintage Children's Classics

Date published

September 6th, 2012

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in 1849 in Manchester but when her father died Frances’s mother emigrated with her sons and daughters to Tennessee in the United States. Life there was harsh and they were quite poor but the young Frances would entertain herself and her siblings with stories. And then in 1868, at the age of eighteen, she went out with her sister to pick grapes and made enough money from that job to buy paper and stamps. She wrote out a romantic tale and sent it off to a magazine. Marvellously, her story was accepted and from that day forward she became the breadwinner in her family, writing up to six stories a month.

When she married a man called Swan Burnett in 1872, she kept up her writing. Frances’s two sons, Lionel and Vivian, would sleep beneath her desk as toddlers. It was unusual for a woman to earn her own money and support her family in the way that Frances did so people in nineteenth-century England and America were very surprised. Many newspapers and magazines were interested in her private life and wrote about her, much like they do about celebrities today.

In 1890, something very sad happened and Frances‘s son, Lionel, died at the age of sixteen. When she wrote about Colin in The Secret Garden Frances might have been thinking about her own son and wishing that his sickness could have been cured. Her other son, Vivian, lived and Frances once made him a real velvet suit. The sight of him in his smart suit inspired her to write her book Little Lord Fauntleroy.

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Vintage Classics Christmas Activity Pack (17 pages)

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What kids think

appleberry
on 11 October 2015

i like this book alot.

5 out of 5
Chocolatelover10
on 24 October 2014

Such a beautiful and emotional classic. I recommend any girl 11+ reading this.:)

5 out of 5
lady16
on 25 September 2014

IT IT SO GREAT!!!! This book is great I loved it solo much
bookaholic202
on 6 March 2014

I had me crying

5 out of 5
maithany
on 5 March 2014

Thumps up
MissKayley
on 5 March 2014

This book is heart-clenching!Its such a great story.My all-time faveourite!

5 out of 5
lap312i
on 7 March 2013

i love this book.you can easily imagine things while you’re reading
catlover96
on 6 March 2013

One of the sweetest children’s books I’ve ever read! I love this author – her “The Secret Garden” is wonderful too. It’s such a touching story.
loi77
on 1 December 2012

An amazing book. It’s sooo much beater then the movie it makes you feel warm and fuzzy and entertains you throughout the whole book

5 out of 5

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A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (author) (UK edition)