Reviews

Sara Crewe, or What Happened at Miss Minchin's by Frances Hodgson Burnett

maggieluong's review

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

djahatimisor's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

mrshgwells's review against another edition

5.0

I love this book and it probably has a lot to do with the copy that I read. It belonged to my Great Grandmother. She got the book the Christmas after she graduated high school in 1900. I think book began my love of period literature. Although to my great grandmonther this would have been contemporary literature. Sara is an orphan who lives at Miss Minchin's. The story tells her adventure and hope of finding a new fmaily after the loss parents. I think there was something magical for me, as a young girl, reading about a young girl in a book that had been around for more than 80 years at the time. My grea grandmother was a school teacher and my imagnation of the hans that must have help that same book made this probably more amazing to me than the sotry actually was.

stagasaurus's review against another edition

inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

Interesting to read this, I can see why she went back to it and fleshed it out further for the Little Princess, which I’ve read many times. Interesting to see what was identical and what was different. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent and Colonisation

dwheeler11's review against another edition

5.0

AKA "A Little Princess". I came across this original edition (says 1888 published and copyright) in an antiques store and had to buy it. One of my all-time favorite children's stories: Sara goes from wealth to adversity but refuses to feel sorry for herself.

haifa64712's review against another edition

4.0

لقد ألهمت هذه القصه القصيره عند نجاحها كاتبتها لكي تحولها لروايه طويله وهي روايه الاميره الصغيره والتي الهمت فيما بعد العديد من الافلام والمسلسلات حول العالم قد يكون اشهرها المسلسل الكرتوني (سالي)

الشخصيات والعلاقات هنا تختلف عن المسلسل الكرتوني كثيرا خصوصا البطله
ساره هنا شخصيه حقيقيه تغار وتكره وتغضب وتتحاذق احببتها اكثر من سالي حقيقه

yuri03's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.25

emlickliter's review against another edition

5.0

Little Princess -- Frances Hohgson Burnett -- I reread it because I found the free digital copy, and I'm all for happy reads right now. Its one of my childhood favorites. I read it in a loop with The Secret Garden and Rebecca of Sunnybrook farm several times. :) There is a good reason they keep remaking this as a movie! Happy Reading!

wealhtheow's review against another edition

2.0

This is the draft of "A Little Princess," and far less readable. All the twee sentimentality is emphasized here.

glyptodonsneeze's review against another edition

3.0

Sara Crewe, or What Happened atMiss Minchin's, the original version of The Little Princess. Sara Crewe was written in 1888 and FHB didn't revise it into A Little Princess until 1905. All those years and people only had this small novella about a girl whose fortunes are double-reversed. It's an interesting read and an astute reader with a love of A Little Princess would pick up thousands more little tweaks than I did. An angry Sara knocks Emily to the ground. In ALP, Sara is so dedicated to her pretendings that she maintains her steadfastness through the deepest privations. An angry Sara is a more human Sara, although she's less appealing as the friends who sustain her in her isolation are not here. No Becky, no Lottie. Ermengarde has a chapter, but her only characteristic is "stupid," and I'm not just saying that. FHB calls her stupid eight or nine times. The bakery episode is almost untouched; characters keep mentioning the French Revolution; and FHB coasts through the end, where all the best parts are. An interesting insight into a work in its middle state.

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