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About all we know about Becky is that she's "fourteen years old, but was so stunted in growth that she looked about twelve" (5.25). What does Becky like to do? How did she end up as a scullery maid?
Her name was Becky. Mariette heard everyone below-stairs calling, “Becky, do this,” and “Becky, do that,” every five minutes in the day. Sara sat and looked into the fire, reflecting on Becky for some time after Mariette left her. She made up a story of which Becky was the ill-used heroine.
Becky. Becky is a scullery maid working at Miss Minchin's school while Sara is a student. Sara and Becky become friends in spite of their obvious difference in social rank. Once Sara is demoted to a life of servitude herself, Becky becomes her close companion.
- Sara. Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.
- A French Lesson. When Sara entered the schoolroom the next morning everybody looked at her with wide, interested eyes. By that time every pupil—from Lavinia Herbert, who was nearly thirteen and felt quite grown up, to Lottie Legh, who was only just four and the baby of the school—had heard a great deal about her.
- Ermengarde. On that first morning, when Sara sat at Miss Minchin's side, aware that the whole schoolroom was devoting itself to observing her, she had noticed very soon one little girl, about her own age, who looked at her very hard with a pair of light, rather dull, blue eyes.
- Lottie. If Sara had been a different kind of child, the life she led at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for the next few years would not have been at all good for her.
A Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story "Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's", which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- 1905
Becky, for her part, shows princess-like qualities because she tries to help Sara and even gives her a birthday gift in spite of her own extremely limited means. One character who woefully misunderstands the meaning of the princess metaphor is Miss Minchin herself.
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Becky : Oh, but they've always meant something to me. There were days I thought I would die, until I heard you talk about the magic. Sara Crewe : There is no magic, Becky. [the girls have awoken to find the attic beautifully redecorated and a breakfast of sausages, muffins, and fruit awaiting them] Sara Crewe : Look!
