Slowbridge had been shaken to its foundations. It may as well be explained, however, at the outset, that it would not take much of a sensation to give Slowbridge a great shock. In the first place, Slowbridge was not used to sensations, and was used to going on the even and respectable tenor of its way, regarding the outside world with private distrust, if not with open disfavor. The new mills had been a trial to Slowbridge, -a sore trial. On being told of the owners' plan of building them, old Lady Theobald, who was the corner-stone of the social edifice of Slowbridge, was said, by a...

In mid-1880s Brooklyn, New York, Cedric Errol lives with his Mother (never named, known only as Mrs Errol or "dearest") in genteel poverty after his Father Captain Errol dies. They receive a visit from Havisham, an English lawyer with a message from Cedric's grandfather, Lord Dorincourt. With the deaths of his father's elder brothers, Cedric is now Lord Fauntleroy and heir to the Earldom and a vast estate.

This beautifully illustrated children's novel was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett. In 1888, two years after the book Little Lord Fauntleroy, she brought in the youth magazine Saint Nicholas the serialized novel Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Boarding School. After the success of the series, she published a novella in 1903 as A Little Princess. In 1905 it was followed by the conversion to an enhanced novel, A Little Princess: The story of Sara Crewe, in which now also appear the classmates Lottie and Ermengarde, the maid Becky and the rat Melchisedec. Popularity of the...

This is a short story about a shy, quiet little girl living in a big city. When her parents are offered the opportunity to take care of a house in the suburbs for the summer she meets another little girl in the house and they become playmates.