Publisher's Synopsis
Skillfully crafted from her novel "Sara Crew," Frances Hodgson Burnett's own theatrical adaptation of her story became a classic play for children. Expanding the story into a full length dramatic piece, the play was first produced on Broadway in 1903, after a London engagement. Sara finds herself orphaned and penniless living in a London boarding school where she is at the mercy of the cruel headmistress Miss Minchen. After the success of the play, Burnett adapted it into the longer novel "The Little Princess