It comes at a time when women’s rights are, once again, very much at the forefront of politics. This story revisited favourite old characters and introduced us to the new class of young ladies sent to improve themselves at Miss Minchin’s. The two of them embark on a friendship which will see them both find the empowerment their long for and uncover a long-hidden secret about Lottie’s missing mother. Determined to support the cause and exert her own mind, she develops a friendship with one of the young maids working at the school. Lottie cannot help but feel there’s more to life than following pointless rules and behaving ‘like a proper young lady’ when out in public.įeeling stifled by her life at present, and angry at her distant father, Lottie takes an interest in the upsurgance of the women’s rights movement and the daring actions of the Suffragettes. Still set in the prim and proper Miss Minchin’s school, the story centres around Lottie, a girl whose father sent her to live at the seminary at the age of four after the apparent death of her mother. After reading, and loving, Webb’s sequel to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s ‘The Secret Garden,’ I was delighted to see learn that she had also reimagined Hodgson Burnett’s beloved classic ‘The Little Princess,’ but set against the tempestuous backdrop of the Suffragette movement of the early 20th century.
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