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Also known as ''The Little Princess'' and ''Sara Crewe'', '''''A Little Princess''''' is a 1905 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also author of ''[[Little Lord Fauntleroy]]'' and ''[[The Secret Garden]]''. This was a revised and expanded version of a novelette called ''Sara Crewe'' first serialized in ''St. Nicholas Magazine'' in 1888.▼
▲A 1905 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also author of ''[[Little Lord Fauntleroy]]'' and ''[[The Secret Garden]]''. This was a revised and expanded version of a novelette called ''Sara Crewe'' first serialized in ''St. Nicholas Magazine'' in 1888.
Sara Crewe, the daughter of a British Army officer (so [[Everything's Better with Princesses|there is no actual princess]]), is refreshingly kind, generous and clever, despite her father's wealth buying her every luxury she could desire. (She does, however, have a [[Beware the Nice Ones|nasty temper when provoked]].) She retains this attitude even when she is packed off to a boarding school for formal education. However, a couple of years later, word comes that a bad investment bankrupted her father, who subsequently died of [[Brain Fever]] brought on by the shock.
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* [[Comic Book Time]]: Sara goes to the seminary when she is seven and becomes poor when she is 11 or older. On her first day Lavinia is already one of the oldest children and is specifically described as 14. By the time the main events play out she should be 18 and have left the school.
* [[Companion Cube]]: Emily. {{spoiler|Although in one moment of despair Sara screams at Emily that she's "just a doll".}}
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]:
* [[Costume Porn]]: Some paragraphs in the book are spent describing Sara's beautiful clothes. Indeed, lengthy paragraphs are devoted to describing the wardrobe of the ''doll''.
** Almost exaggerated in the Cuaron film. You can hardly blame Miss Minchin when she says Sara can't wear her finery looking at what she's wearing in that very scene.
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