CONTENTS
THE WHOLE OF THE STORY i
CHAPTER 1 1
CHAPTER 2 12
CHAPTER 3 19
CHAPTER 4 27
CHAPTER 5 37
CHAPTER 6 48
CHAPTER 7 59
CHAPTER 8 81
CHAPTER 9 92
CHAPTER 10 105
CHAPTER 11 118
CHAPTER 12 128
CHAPTER 13 137
CHAPTER 14 149
CHAPTER 15 155
A LITTLE PRINCESS 2
CHAPTER 16 180
CHAPTER 17 197
CHAPTER 18 205
CHAPTER 19 217
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THE WHOLE OF THE STORY i
THE WHOLE OF THE STORY
I
do not know whether many people realize how
much more than is ever written there really is
in a storyhow many parts of it are never toldhow
much more really happened than there is in the book
one holds in one''s hand and pores over. Stories are
something like letters. When a letter is written, how
often one remembers things omitted and says, "Ah,
why did I not tell them that?" In writing a book one
relates all that one remembers at the time, and if one
told all that really happened perhaps the book would
never end. Between the lines of every story there is
another story, and that is one that is never heard and
can only be guessed at by the people who are good at
guessing. The person who writes the story may never
know all of it, but sometimes he does and wishes he
had the chance to begin again.
When I wrote the story of "Sara Crewe" I guessed
that a great deal more had happened at Miss Minchin''s
than I had had time to find out just then. I knew, of
course, that there must have been chapters full of
things going on all the time; and when I began to
make a play out of the book and called it "A Little
Princess," I discovered three acts full of things. What
interested me most was that I found that there had
been girls at the school whose names I had not even
known before. There was a little girl whose name
was Lottie, who was an amusing little person; there
was a hungry scullery-maid who was Sara''s adoring
A LITTLE PRINCESS ii
friend; Ermengarde was much more entertaining than
she had seemed at first; things happened in the garret
which had never been hinted at in the book; and a
certain gentleman whose name was Melchisedec was
an intimate friend of Sara''s who should never have
been left out of the story if he had only walked into
it in time. He and Becky and Lottie lived at Miss
Minchin''s, and I cannot understand why they did not
mention themselves to me at first. They were as real
as Sara, and it was careless of them not to come out of
the story shadowland and say, "Here I amtell about
me." But they did notwhich was their fault and
not mine. People who live in the story one is writing
ought to come forward at the beginning and tap the
writing person on the shoulder and say, "Hallo, what
about me?" If they don''t, no one can be blamed but
themselves and their slouching, idle ways.
After the play of "A Little Princess" was produced
in New York, and so many children went to see it
and liked Becky and Lottie and Melchisedec, my
publishers asked me if I could not write Sara''s story
over again and put into it all the things and people who
had been left out before, and so I have done it; and
when I began I found there were actually pages and
pages of things which had happened that had never
been put even into the play, so in this new "Little
Princess" I have put all I have been able to discover.
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
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