Lottie, my main character, who was the spoiled baby of A Little Princess, knows that she hates the school. Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies certainly wasn’t trying to educate girls to go on to university. They would also be able converse politely in company, and have accomplishments such as sketching, music, dancing and speaking French. They only needed to be educated to the extent that they could run a household – a basic understanding of accounts, planning a menu and directing servants. At the time, the main expectation of middle and upper-class girls in Britain was that they would become wives and mothers. The story of The Princess and the Suffragette starts in 1911. It’s a story about lost mothers turning up in unexpected situations, the power of friendship and female empowerment. A father who has a secret to hide about her own missing mother… Soon Lottie finds herself sneaking out of the orphanage to attend a demonstration, in defiance of her cold, distant father. Lottie, the smallest girl from the original story, learns about the Suffragette movement from Sara, who returns to visit from time to time. It is 1913, nine years after the end of A Little Princess saw Sara Crewe escape Miss Minchin’s orphanage.
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