A Little Princess (Annotated)

A Little Princess is a refined work of late-Victorian children's literature, tracing the moral and imaginative education of Sara Crewe, a wealthy pupil at Miss Minchin's London seminary who is suddenly reduced to servitude. Burnett combines fairy-tale structure, social realism, and sentimental melodrama, using Sara's inner life—her storytelling, courtesy, and disciplined fantasy—as a means of resi...