about the book brooke's quest for captain

Miss Minchin openly fawns over Sara for her money, but is secretly jealous and dislikes Sara almost from the outset. The Captain enrolls his seven-year-old daughter at an all-girls boarding school in London and dotes on his daughter so much that he orders and pays the haughty headmistress, Miss Minchin, for special treatment and exceptional luxuries for Sara, such as a private room for her with a personal maid and a separate sitting room (see Parlour boarder), along with Sara's own private carriage and a pony. Because the Indian climate is considered too harsh for their children, British families living there traditionally send their children to boarding school back home in England. Plot Ĭaptain Ralph Crewe, a wealthy English widower, has been raising his only child and daughter, Sara, in India where he is stationed with the British Army. Nicholas) with illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts and the full title A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Being Told for the First Time. The novel was published by Charles Scribner's Sons (also publisher of St. According to Burnett, after she composed the 1902 play A Little Un-fairy Princess based on that story, her publisher asked that she expand the story as a novel with 'the things and people that had been left out before'. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888.

It is an expanded version of the short story 'Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's', which was serialized in St. Copyright: Public Domain (in most countries)Ī Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905.

About the book brooke's quest for captain