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    Frances Hodgson Burnett - Sara Crewe: “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett - Sara Crewe: “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
    Frances Hodgson Burnett - Sara Crewe: “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett - Sara Crewe: “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”

    By Francis Hodgson Burnett

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    The eponymous heroine of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Sara Crewe (1888) is a seven-year-old girl. She is the daughter of a wealthy tradesman who has left her at Miss Minchin’s boarding school while being engaged in his trade in the Indian subcontinent. Thanks to the financial status of her father, the school’s headmistress Miss Minchin treats Sara like a princess. This special treatment does not spoil the little child, though. On the contrary, Sara develops the moral qualities of a noble lady, showing signs of generosity and modesty among her school peers. Nonetheless, things turn completely upside down when she receives news about the death of her father and the theft of his great fortunes. Miss Minchin’s true face is now unveiled as she decides to make of Sara her own servant and deprives her of all her previous advantages. Sara has to endure hunger, cold and the wickedness of some of her schoolmates. After episodes of psychological and physical suffering through which Sara shows great patience and confidence in her values, it turns out that her father’s fortunes have not been stolen. Her father’s friend, Mr. Carrisford, appears to inform her that he has been looking for her to hand her the money that has even doubled since her father’s death.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA Word To The Wise
    Release dateAug 20, 2013
    ISBN9781780006581
    Frances Hodgson Burnett - Sara Crewe: “Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
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    Francis Hodgson Burnett

    Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) was an English-American author and playwright. She is best known for her incredibly popular novels for children, including Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden.

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    • 4/5
      Sweet little story, that had me crying at the end (same way I always cry at A Little Princess). It's funny, because it really does have all the main points of ALP - what's missing is the details and the interactions. And Becky, who's completely missing. Ermengarde is there, but only for one or two scenes. The details of Sara with her father are missing, and details of her life before and after her change of fortune are barely sketched out - enough to convey the events, but not the full story of ALP. Sara and her doll Emily, her father's death, Miss Minchin's "solution", her attic room, running errands - the one scene that is there is the found money, the buns, and the hungrier girl. Bare mentions of the Large Family and the Indian Gentleman. The delights delivered to her room, including the clothes (which gave Miss Minchin her first clue of what was happening). And the final happy discovery. There's actually more detail, I think, after Sara goes to her new home - more about the Large Family and their interactions with her. And it ends with the return to the bakery. Now, of course, I have to read A Little Princess again, just to see. A very nice little story.
    • 3/5
      Before there was A Little Princess - that beloved classic of children's literature that has long been one of the cornerstones of girlhood reading - there was Sarah Crewe, a heroine whose story began, not with the publication of the 1903 novel, but with the serialization of a shorter, earlier version of the tale, in 1888. This volume, Sara Crewe: Or What Happened at Miss Minchin's, is a lovely reproduction of that earlier version, which first appeared in the pages of St. Nicholas Magazine. As someone who loved the longer novel as a girl, Sara Crewe is something I've long wanted to read, and what better time than now, shortly before I begin my reread of A Little Princess itself, for our January group discussion in my girls' school story group?It was a rather surreal experience for me, reading this, as I am so familiar with the later story: everything felt familiar, and yet somewhat strange as well. Almost like seeing a well-known and well-loved image through a distorted lens. Many things were the same: the heroine, the school, the nasty proprietess - and don't we all love to hate Miss Minchin! But there were differences as well, some, like the absence of Becky, immediately noticeable, while others, such as the overall tone, taking a little longer to register. It seemed to me, when reading, that A Little Princess had a far less intrusive narrator than this predecessor, perhaps because Burnett had more space to show, rather than to tell, in her later revision.It's an interesting thought that, like some of the other reviewers here, I might have preferred this, had I read it first - and it is an enjoyable little period piece - but the reality is that, compared to the fuller version, it felt incomplete and rushed to me. I wanted more! Fortunately, that more exists, as A Little Princess. Recommended primarily to those who are interested in the history of this story, and in reading an earlier version of it.
    • 4/5
      The story of a young girl who goes from riches to rags and back to riches again, striving to keep her goodness throughout her hardships and being rewarded at the end for her efforts... This review is mostly for anyone who has heard of/read the later version of this same story, A Little Princess.This book is almost a rough draft of the later version, A Little Princess. Still the same story, still many of the same details, just much less fleshed out, less rich in detail. Becky, Melchisedec, Lottie? Nonexistent. Ermengarde? Less a faithful friend than a convenient accident of acquaintance. Many characters are named or hinted at but never given voices or personalities as they are in the later version (Amelia, for instance, and some of the other students). There is less back-story here, less of the fond relationship between Sara and her papa (we never actually meet him in this version), and it is therefore less of a jolt in this book when he rather distantly and matter-of-factly dies. Sara, too, undergoes changes from this version to the next. She is not so vibrant and solid in this earlier composition, and a trifle less likable, even. We see her giving abrupt answers early on, and watch her determine to be good and polite in spite of all of it, while in A.L.P. we get to see her exhibiting her kindness and quirks before the disaster occurs and see her strive valiantly to maintain her goodness. I'm also very glad to see that the whole sequence of events with the monkey in the attic/introduction to the Indian Gentleman and the Lascar/transformation of the garrett/discovery of her true identity was reworked in the later version - the order of events here seemed clunky, contrived and at times illogical. Finally, the peak of the story was not hit as satisfyingly as it is in A.L.P., and the denouement was fairly tedious.This is not to say that I didn't enjoy it. On the contrary, I found it very interesting to see where the story began, and to get a peek into the earlier forms of the characters and story lines that I so enjoyed in A Little Princess! It has always been one of my favorite stories (in fact, as a child reading A.L.P. I was always quite taken by Sara's ability to behave so nobly in the face of her hardships and quite determined to adopt her attitude. This only ever lasted for a few hours after each reading, but was a favorite fantasy all the same.) In summary I'd suggest that if you're unfamiliar with, but interested in, the story, to get a copy of A Little Princess and read it. But if you already love A.L.P. and want to see where it came from, this is definitely worth a read!A few favorite quotes, both by Sara, the tale's heroine:p. 21 - "When people are insulting you, there is nothing so good for them as not to say a word - just to look at them and think. ... They know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in - that's stronger."p. 41 - "I am a princess in rags and tatters," she would think, "but I am a princess, inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth-of-gold; it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it."

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    Frances Hodgson Burnett - Sara Crewe - Francis Hodgson Burnett

    SARA CREWE            

    By

    FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

    Index Of Contents

    Sara Crewe

    Frances Hodgson Burnett – A Biography

    In the first place, Miss Minchin lived in London.   Her home was a large, dull, tall one, in a large, dull square, where all the houses were alike, and all the sparrows were alike, and where all the door-knockers made the same heavy sound, and on still days —and nearly all the days were still—seemed to resound through the entire row in which the knock was knocked.  On Miss Minchin’s door there was a brass plate.  On the brass plate there was inscribed in black letters, MISS MINCHIN’S SELECT SEMINARY FOR YOUNG LADIES.

    Little Sara Crewe never went in or out of the house without reading that door-plate and reflecting upon it.  By the time she was twelve, she had decided that all her trouble arose because, in the first place, she was not Select, and in the second she was not a Young Lady.  When she was eight years old, she had been brought to Miss Minchin as a pupil, and left with her.  Her papa had brought her all the way from India.  Her mamma had died when she was a baby, and her papa had kept her with him as long as he could.  And then, finding the hot climate was making her very delicate, he had brought her to England and left her with Miss Minchin, to be part of the Select Seminary for Young Ladies.  Sara, who had always been a sharp little child, who remembered things, recollected hearing him say that he had not a relative in the world whom he knew of, and so he was obliged to place her at a boarding-school, and he had heard Miss Minchin’s establishment spoken of very highly.  The same day, he took Sara out and bought her a great many beautiful clothes— clothes so grand and rich that only a very young and inexperienced man would have bought them for a mite of a child who was to be brought up in a boarding-school.  But the fact was that he was a rash, innocent young man, and very sad at the thought of parting with his little girl, who was all he had left to remind him of her beautiful mother, whom he had dearly loved.  And he wished her to have everything the most fortunate little girl could have; and so, when the polite saleswomen in the shops said, Here is our very latest thing in hats, the plumes are exactly the same as those we sold to Lady Diana Sinclair yesterday, he immediately bought what was offered to him, and paid whatever was asked.  The consequence was that Sara had a most extraordinary wardrobe.  Her dresses were silk and velvet and India cashmere, her hats and bonnets were covered with bows and plumes, her small undergarments were adorned with real lace, and she returned in the cab to Miss Minchin’s with a doll almost as large as herself, dressed quite as grandly as herself, too.

    Then her papa gave Miss Minchin some money and went away, and for several days Sara would neither touch the doll, nor her breakfast, nor her dinner, nor her tea, and would do nothing but crouch in a small corner by the window and cry.  She cried so much, indeed, that she made herself ill.  She was a queer little child, with old-fashioned ways and strong feelings, and she had adored her papa, and could not be made to think that India and an interesting bungalow were not better for her than London and Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary.  The instant she had entered the house, she had begun promptly to hate Miss Minchin, and to think little of Miss Amelia Minchin, who was smooth and dumpy, and lisped, and was evidently afraid of her older sister.  Miss Minchin was tall, and had large, cold, fishy eyes, and large, cold hands, which seemed fishy, too, because they were damp and made chills run down Sara’s back when they touched her, as Miss Minchin pushed her hair off her forehead and said:

    A most beautiful and promising little girl, Captain Crewe.  She will be a favorite pupil; quite a favorite pupil, I see.

    For the first year she was a favorite pupil; at least she was indulged a great deal more than was good for her.  And when the Select Seminary went walking, two by two, she was always decked out in her grandest clothes, and led by the hand at the head of the genteel procession, by Miss Minchin herself.  And when the parents of any of the pupils came, she was always dressed and called into the parlor with her doll; and she used to hear Miss Minchin say that her father was a distinguished Indian officer, and she would be heiress to a great fortune.  That her father had inherited a great deal of money, Sara had heard before; and also that some day it would be hers, and that he would not remain long in the army, but would come to live in London.  And every time a letter came, she hoped it would say he was coming, and they were to live together again.

    But about the middle of the third year a letter came bringing very different news.  Because he was not a business man

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