I will say I do think it is essential to read this classic first or as a short cut you could read this plot outline from Wikipedia. Luckily it is available through Project Gutenberg. Knowing this was a sequel I needed to find A little Princess. Holly Webb is not the first person to pen a sequel to A little Princess - I have also found a book by Hilary McKay called Wishing for Tomorrow. About a year ago I read Return to the Secret Garden - a sequel to another book by Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden. This is the second 'sequel' book I have read by Holly Webb. I wonder why the publisher didn't put this detail somewhere on the book. I looked at some bookseller sites and eventually I discovered A Little Princess is a book written by Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1905. I searched all over this new book for a clue. On the cover it says " A sequel to the much loved classic A little Princess." I had no idea about the book A Little Princess and wrongly assumed it was also by Holly Webb. Firstly the title - I am fascinated by the suffragette movement in England prior to WWI and secondly I liked the cover but when I sat down to read it a couple of days ago I made an odd discovery. I picked this book - The Princess and the Suffragette - in a bookshop recently for two reasons.
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