A Little Princess is a British children's novel by
Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of Burnett's 1888 short story entitled
Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's, which was serialized in
St. Nicholas Magazine from 1887 to 1888. According to Burnett, after she composed the 1902 play
A Little Un-fairy Princess based on the story, her publisher asked that she expand the story as a novel with "the things and people that had been left out before". It was published by
Charles Scribner's Sons with illustrations by
Ethel Franklin Betts and the full title
A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Being Told for the First Time.