Sara Crewe; Or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) grew up in England, but she began writing what was to become The Secret Garden in 1909, when she was creating a garden for a new home in Long Island, New York. Frances was a born storyteller. Even as a young child, her greatest pleasure was making up stories and acting them out, using her dolls as characters. She wrote over forty books in her lifetime.
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Sara Crewe; Or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School - Frances Hodgson Burnett
SARA CREWE; OR, WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHIN’S BOARDING SCHOOL
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SARA CREWE OR WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHIN’S
MISS MINCHIN’S SELECT SEMINARY FOR YOUNG LADIES
Sara Crewe; Or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s Boarding School
By
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sara Crewe; Or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s Boarding School
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First published circa 1924
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SARA CREWE OR WHAT HAPPENED AT MISS MINCHIN’S
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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
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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