However, Sara’s kindness, tenacity and imagination afford her new joys, eventually bringing her all the way to a happy ending. Transformed from a veritable princess into an unpaid scullery maid, she loses all the expensive comforts she is used to.
But when Sara’s father suddenly passes away, leaving behind nothing but debt, her life is turned upside down. As she adjusts to her new life, her character turns out to be surprisingly different from that of the stereotypical rich, spoiled girl she uses her advantage and intelligence to help those of her classmates cast off by the other girls. The wealthy, pampered Sara Crewe finds herself alone in a new country when her doting father leaves her at a London boarding school. What does a person really need in order to be happy? If you were to lose every tangible thing which gives you joy now, what intangible things would make life still worth living? The novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett answers these two questions from the point of view of an eleven-year-old with a response which is ultimately simple, sweet, and surprisingly wise. Harper Classics: New York, 1998 originally published in 1905.
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