Sara Crewe, Little Saint Elizabeth, and other stories

By Frances Hodgson Burnett

Subjects: poverty, friendship, coming-of-age, imagination, magic, Children's literature, family, short stories, classics, hope, boarding school, wealth

Description: Sara Crewe, Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories is collection of short stories by Frances Hodgson Burnett. - Sara Crewe or What happen at Miss Minchin's - Little Saint Elizabeth - The Story of Prince Fairyfoot - The Proud Little Grain of Wheat - Behind the White Brick A Little Princess is a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a revised and expanded version of Burnett's 1888 serialised novel entitled Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School, which was published in St. Nicholas Magazine. 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.