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Similar to [[Changeling Fantasy|Riches to Rags]], this trope may come into play when a rich child's [[Parental Abandonment|single parent]] marries [[Wicked Stepmother|someone secretly cruel/mean]] who acts sweet and nice around the father and two-faced/terrible around their new child. If the stepparent has children of their own, expect the children to have a similar personality; the child may lose their parents or be abandoned by them and sent to a [[Orphanage of Fear]]. Worst still, the poor child may have been born into such circumstances where she is forced to work for her keep.
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In other words, the formerly well-to-do child is reduced to a lower state in life (they may be put into the position of a servant for their new stepmother and stepsisters) though he or she may not have been all that well-to-do to begin with.
See also [[Guess Who I'm Marrying]]. [[Rags to Royalty]] may ensue.
[[Changeling Fantasy]] is a more upbeat variation of the concept in which the child imagines themselves to be a [[Foundling]] of [[Royal Blood]] instead of an unappreciated stepchild. Not to be confused with [[Changeling Tale]], in which the child is [[Redheaded Stepchild|treated differently]] due to abduction by [[The Fair Folk]]. See also [[Evil Uncle]]. Not quite the same thing as [[Rags to Riches]].
Contrast "[[
For other tropes associated with "[[Cinderella (
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== [[Anime]]
* ''[[Candy Candy]]'': At age 12, Candy is "adopted" by the Leagan family to be a companion to Eliza and later ends up as a maid. The children, Eliza and Neal, tease her and order her about, and their mother isn't any nicer.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Victorian Romance Emma]]'': Emma was born in a seaside village where she was given tough jobs and regularly physically and verbally abused. Luckily, she gained a better life after Kelly Stowner took her under her wing and trained her to be a maid.
* In ''[[Honey Hunt]]'', if the maid is not at home, Yura is often made to wait on [[Abusive Parents|her mother]] and her clients when she comes home after being away at work for so long. Sometimes her mother is even gone for months at a time.
* In one story in ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]: Tokyo'', a young woman who was formerly a hostess from the Philippines ends up [[Happily Married]] to a [[
* ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Billy Batson (and his sister, Mary) who would grow up to become [[Captain Marvel]], belonged to a wealthy family but lost his fortune after his parents died and he was sent to an orphanage by his evil Uncle [[Meaningful Name|Ebenezer]], who actually made a [[Deal
* ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Jane Eyre]]'s life with her aunt and two snobby cousins wasn't very pleasant but then again, the
* ''[[James and
* In ''The Claidi Journals'' by [[Tanith Lee]], this is pretty much Claidi's life before she meets Nemain and escapes with him.
* ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events|The Baudelaire siblings]]''. They are sent from one [[Illegal Guardian]] and useless caretaker to the next, after their parents die in a fire, and their first guardian, Count Olaf, was pretty much the worst of them. It's revealed that he didn't care about them at all and merely wanted their fortune and was trying to kill them to get it. As such, he makes his hatred and hostility towards them quite clear during their time with him. He makes them sleep in one sparsely decorated bedroom together, with a uncomfortable bed, and no crib for Sunny. Also, he usually leaves them a long list of difficult and tedious chores to do, while he's out for the day. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|He also abuses them.]]
** In the tenth book, "The Slippery Slope", Sunny resides with Count Olaf and his henchmen on top of a snowy mountain after being captured by them. She ends up becoming a servant for the whole group, including cooking meals in freezing temperatures, doing the washing/cleaning, setting and clearing tables, and sleeping in a casserole dish.
*** Don't forget getting chips out of the car by blowing them out.
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** Lampshaded in ''Half-Blood Prince'', though, when Dumbledore visits Privet Drive and spells out to them what terrible guardians they have been.
** Then his cousin Dudley reveals {{spoiler|he doesn't think Harry is "worthless" at all! The events of the fifth book helped.}}
* ''[[Ella Enchanted]]'': It's basically a retelling of "[[Cinderella (
* In ''[[A Little Princess]]'', Sara is packed off to a boarding school for formal education. However, after a few years, word comes that her beloved father is dead, and that his fortune is
* In ''[[
** Stern, bossy foster parents who also, among other things, were alcoholics and had her care for six children. And Anne does her best to ''downplay'' how bad it was.
* The Bride in ''The Song of Songs'' justifies her dark complexion with this:
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''because the sun has burned me.
''My brothers have been angry with me;
''they charged me with the care of the vineyards:
''my own vineyard I have not cared for.'' }}
* Fanny Price of [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[Mansfield Park]]'' was, ironically, sent to live with her rich uncle and aunts because they could logically offer her a better life than her parents could. Who'd have thought they would treat her like [[The Unfavorite]] and a servant and that her aunt [[
* Elizabeth in the opening of Sharon Shinn's [[Arch Angel|Angel Seeker]]
* In [[Lord Dunsany]]'s ''[[The
* ''The Lottie Project'' by [[Jacqueline Wilson]], where the heroine writes her school project as the fictional diary of "Lottie", a Victorian girl forced to become a nursemaid in a manor house in order to support her family.
* In ''[[Jane of Lantern Hill]]'' by [[
* In [[Gene Stratton Porter]]'s ''A Daughter of the Land'', Kate's help with the housework is extensive.
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== [[Film]] ==
▲* The movie ''[[Ever After (Film)|Ever After]]'' starring Drew Barrymore.
* The movie ''[[A Cinderella Story]]'' starring Hillary Duff.
** And the spiritual sequel, ''[[Another Cinderella Story]]'' starring Selena Gomez.
* ''[[Cinderella
== [[Fairy Tale]] ==
* "[[Cinderella (
** In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130824043758/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/finettecendron.html Finette Cendron]'', and ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130824050321/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/fair.html Fair, Brown, and Trembling]'', the heroine's sisters do the same thing.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140324190359/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/13threemenforest.html The Three Little Men In the Wood]'', the [[Wicked Stepmother]] oppresses her stepdaughter until she sends her into the woods on an [[Impossible Task]] to kill her.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130906231232/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/frogking/stories/wellworld.html The Well of the World's End]'', heavy housework again culminated in an [[Impossible Task]].
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131020140115/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/babayaga/index.html Vasilissa the Beautiful]'', the heroine has to do all the housework, managing only with her magical doll, until her stepsisters send her to get fire from [[Wicked Witch|Baba Yaga]].
* In ''[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/greenknight.html The Green Knight]'', ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20191123051321/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/pentamerone/6cenerentola1911.html Cenerentola]'', and ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130824020414/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/hearthcat.html The Hearth Cat]'', the stepmother had actually persuaded the stepdaughter to ask her father to marry her, but proceeded to oppress her as soon as she was married.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130313074520/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/katiewoodencloak.html Katie Woodencloak]'', the stepmother turned Katie out to tend the cows. When she finds that a dun cow is magically helping her, she set out to have the cow killed. Katie ran away, and found a job working in the kitchen.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130824041617/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/blackcow.html The Story of the Black Cow]'', the stepmother starves her stepson.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The ''[[Tales
* The [[Korean Series]] ''[[Shining Inheritance]]'' has the female lead kicked out of her home along with her autistic brother by her stepmother after her father apparently dies in a gas explosion.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In [[Strays]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20110830151231/http://www.straysonline.com/comic/140.htm Meela's fate, briefly]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[Pound Puppies|The Pound Puppies]] has Holly, an orphan, who is constantly abused/exploited by her stepmother and stepsister. By the end of the first season, it was implied she inherited their house, and lived happily ever after. Then came the second season...
* In [[
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