Impressed by Captain Crewe’s fortune, and wishing to keep Sara at the school as long as possible, Miss Minchin allows Sara luxuries far beyond those of her other parlour boarders—that is until the day of Sara’s eleventh birthday when Sara receives the devastating news of her adored father’s death.
Suddenly penniless, Miss Minchin banishes Sara to the garret to work as a servant alongside Becky, the seminary’s young scullery maid. Though starved and abused, Sara uses imagination and friendship—with Becky, Ermengarde, and Lottie—to make the best of her change in situation and fortunes. However, hope is on the horizon, in the guise of a monkey and his mysterious owner who lives next door…
3 Acts; Cast - 5 male, 3 female, 1 boy, and 14 girls; Setting - 1902, London
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was an English playwright and author, best known for her children's stories—in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
Born near Manchester, England, her family emigrated to the USA in 1865, where she began writing to help earn money for the family. She is buried in Roslyn Cemetery, on Long Island, and a memorial sculpture—depicting her two famous Secret Garden characters, Mary and Dickon—was erected in her honour in Central Park's Conservatory Garden in 1936.
Rachel Louise Lawrence is a British author who translates and adapts folk and fairy tales from original texts and puts them back into print, particularly the lesser-known British & Celtic variants.
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