A Little Princess

For other uses, see Little Princess (disambiguation).
A Little Princess
Front cover of the first edition (1905)
AuthorFrances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's literature
PublisherCharles Scribner's Sons
Publication date
September 1905
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages324
LC Class
  • PZ7.B934 Sa[1]
  • PZ7.B934 S (1888)[2]
  • PZ7.B934 S23 (1938)[3]
Copyright: Public Domain (in most countries)

A Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story "Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's", which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888. 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".[4] The novel was published by Charles Scribner's Sons (also publisher of St. Nicholas Magazine) 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.[1]

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  4. ^ Wordsworth edition of A Little Princess.