![]() He wears a fur-lined patelot coat, with a fox fur collar and cuffs. When A Little Princess was published in 1905, it was a contemporary novel and Mr Crewe looks exactly as a well-bred, wealthy man should do in 1905. Harold Piffard, the artist, has obviously read the book carefully. What I’ve always liked about the illustrations is that they are accurate. I, too, was at a Primary boarding school – so that was another thing we shared.īefore he leaves, Mr Crewe buys Sara a beautiful doll, Emily, and has an entire wardrobe made especially for her. She will be a parlour border, that is, she will stay there during the holidays. We first meet her with her much loved father in London, being taken to Miss Mitchin’s Select Academy for Young Ladies. ![]() Sara was born in India and, as was usual then for health reasons, was sent to England for her education when she was seven. ![]() ![]() The heroine, Sara Crewe, says early on: ‘ Whenever I play I make up stories and tell them to myself.’ I, too, told myself stories, and I knew at once that this would be my sort of book. Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess (1905) was one of my favourite books as a child. ![]()
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