A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Summary

“A Little Princess” is one of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s most loved stories. It is the story of young Sara Crewe who while growing up in a well to do household suddenly finds herself impoverished when her father, Captain Crewe, dies penniless in India. Sara is forced to abandon her life of privilege for a life of bare existence at Miss Minchin’s boarding school. To survive those hard times she imagines herself to be a little princess as she awaits her rescue from a mysterious benefactor.

Chapter 1: Sara
Chapter 2: A French Lesson
Chapter 3: Ermengarde
Chapter 4: Lottie
Chapter 5: Becky
Chapter 6: The Diamond Mines
Chapter 7: The Diamond Mines Again
Chapter 8: In The Attic
Chapter 9: Melchisedec
Chapter 10: The Indian Gentleman
Chapter 11: Ram Dass
Chapter 12: The Other Side of the Wall
Chapter 13: One of the Populace
Chapter 14: What Melchisedec Heard & Saw
Chapter 15: The Magic
Chapter 16: The Visitor
Chapter 17: “It is the Child!”
Chapter 18: “I Tried Not to Be”
Chapter 19: Anne