Introduction
A Little Princess
was written in 1905 by
Frances Hodgson Burnett. She was from England,
but she lived and wrote in the United States.
She was famous for writing children’s stories.
At first,
A Little Princess
was a much shorter
story about Sara Crewe. Then it became a whole
book. Burnett also wrote a play based on the
same story. Two other popular children’s stories
by Burnett are
The Secret Garden
and
Little Lord
Fauntleroy
.
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