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A Little Princess
This retelling of the well-known classic is both charming and accessible to younger readers. "I do sometimes pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like a proper one." When wealthy Sara Crewe first arrives at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, she is treated like a princess. But when Sara descends into poverty and is forced to work as a lowly servant, she needs all her courage and imagination to remain a princess at heart. This Young Classics edition explores the real world behind A Little Princess. Photography sets the scene without intruding on the story, and brings A Little Princess to life for a new generation of children.
48 pages, Hardcover
First published September 28, 2000
About the author
Frances Hodgson Burnett
1,849 books5,181 followersFrances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. After her father died in 1853, when Frances was 4 years old, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling in New Market, Tennessee. Frances began her writing career there at age 19 to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines. In 1870, her mother died. In Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1873 she married Swan M. Burnett, who became a medical doctor. Their first son Lionel was born a year later. The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their second son Vivian was born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C. Burnett then began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o' Lowrie's), was published to good reviews. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess.
Beginning in the 1880s, Burnett began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there, where she wrote The Secret Garden. Her elder son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1890, which caused a relapse of the depression she had struggled with for much of her life. She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898, married Stephen Townesend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902. A few years later she settled in Nassau County, New York, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery.
In 1936, a memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in her honor in Central Park's Conservatory Garden. The statue depicts her two famous Secret Garden characters, Mary and Dickon.
Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. After her father died in 1853, when Frances was 4 years old, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling in New Market, Tennessee. Frances began her writing career there at age 19 to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines. In 1870, her mother died. In Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1873 she married Swan M. Burnett, who became a medical doctor. Their first son Lionel was born a year later. The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their second son Vivian was born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C. Burnett then began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o' Lowrie's), was published to good reviews. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess.
Beginning in the 1880s, Burnett began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there, where she wrote The Secret Garden. Her elder son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1890, which caused a relapse of the depression she had struggled with for much of her life. She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898, married Stephen Townesend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902. A few years later she settled in Nassau County, New York, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery.
In 1936, a memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in her honor in Central Park's Conservatory Garden. The statue depicts her two famous Secret Garden characters, Mary and Dickon.
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September 21, 2025
A Princesinha é, além de tudo, uma história belíssima sobre perseverança e saber não se perder na nebulosa que é o luto; ainda mais em uma idade tão tenra como a de Sara. acho que ela é um ótimo exemplo de pessoa que devemos ser: mesmo tendo privilégios pela riqueza de seu pai e de sua posição social, Sara não cai nos declives da avareza e arrogância. muito por outro lado, ela é empática, gentil e prestativa. mesmo estando nos piores e decadentes períodos de sua vida, Sara não desiste e vê a vida por um lado positivo. sinto que as amizades que ela formou (nesse inferno de escola) foram essenciais para não deixar com que ela caísse num penhasco de desesperança.
de qualquer forma, tive alguns "problemas" com a história. obviamente é uma história de certa forma infantil, e é absolutamente normal, mas muitas vezes eu não me empolgava com o desenrolar da história por conta desse mesmíssimo fator. sinto que Sara consegue ser, por muitas vezes, presunçosa, e isso afeta seus relacionamentos. acho que é impossível que um livro não reflita os ideais de sua época, e nesse livro vemos certos preconceitos. nomeadamente na personagem ermengarde, que é reduzida à sua falta de inteligência (e que me parece interligada por seu peso). nessa história temos personagens que são unicamente bons e unicamente maus. acho que essa simplificação dos atributos das personagens torna a história muito previsível. achei inclusive a "fórmula" dessa história muito parecida com O Jardim Secreto (mesma autora, né). também me parece meio estranho como um homem aleatório conseguia ter um acesso tão fácil ao sótão de uma escola e que eles todos só acharam ok aparecer um monte de móveis de qualidade KKKK
enfim, queria ter a sorte da Sara de ser adotada por um cara rico assim. aliás quero justiça para o melhor personagem e que simplesmente sumiu no final, o melquisedeque!!! a Sara foi muito desumilde
de qualquer forma, tive alguns "problemas" com a história. obviamente é uma história de certa forma infantil, e é absolutamente normal, mas muitas vezes eu não me empolgava com o desenrolar da história por conta desse mesmíssimo fator. sinto que Sara consegue ser, por muitas vezes, presunçosa, e isso afeta seus relacionamentos. acho que é impossível que um livro não reflita os ideais de sua época, e nesse livro vemos certos preconceitos. nomeadamente na personagem ermengarde, que é reduzida à sua falta de inteligência (e que me parece interligada por seu peso). nessa história temos personagens que são unicamente bons e unicamente maus. acho que essa simplificação dos atributos das personagens torna a história muito previsível. achei inclusive a "fórmula" dessa história muito parecida com O Jardim Secreto (mesma autora, né). também me parece meio estranho como um homem aleatório conseguia ter um acesso tão fácil ao sótão de uma escola e que eles todos só acharam ok aparecer um monte de móveis de qualidade KKKK
enfim, queria ter a sorte da Sara de ser adotada por um cara rico assim. aliás quero justiça para o melhor personagem e que simplesmente sumiu no final, o melquisedeque!!! a Sara foi muito desumilde
December 11, 2024
eu amooo esse livro
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