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Written by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Audio book performed by Rebecca Burns - Unabridged Fiction - 5 COMPACT DISCS - 6 hours

Publisher, Tantor Media (July 2004)

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Sara Crewe, ten years old, leads a delightful life. Her father, a British officer, provides her with all of the comfort his wealth and charm allow. When he dies, a cold-hearted schoolmistress turns Sara into a drudge. How does she cope? Sara is unquenchable. Her father taught her that every girl is a princess, rich or poor. That gift - along with grace, spirit and imagination - give her serenity and puts the fall from riches to rags in perspective.

About the Author: English born novelist Frances Hodgson Burnett was best known for her children’s stories, particularly Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden, and A Little Princess. Many of her works have been, and continue to be dramatized in film and video.

Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Manchester England on November 24, 1849. When she was four, her father died, leaving her mother with five children and little money. They moved to America when she was sixteen and settled on a farm in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The family financial situation did not improve and Frances felt that she had the ability to earn money from writing, so as a teenager, she sent a story to an editor. Frances paid for the paper and postage stamps with money she had earned picking and selling wild grapes. She began with short stories based on her childhood days in Manchester. After Surly Tim’s Trouble premiered in Scribner’s Magazine in 1872, publishers pursued Frances and one successful story led to another.

Frances married Dr. Swan M. Burnett in 1873 and they had two sons. They traveled extensively throughout Europe and subsequently took up residence in Washington, DC. Later in life, reporters criticized her lifestyle and turned public sentiment against her, despite attempts to stay out of the public eye. Frances Hodgson Burnett died October 29th, 1924, at the age of 74.