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In A Little Princess, Becky is a
scullery maid at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, the story's primary setting.
Background
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Becky was not a character in Burnett's original novella, Sara Crewe; or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's.[1] Burnett first added Becky to the story in her 1902
theatrical adaptation of the novella: in the play, Becky appears as one of four servants at the seminary.[2]
From the 1840s onward,
popular science literature in Europe, including Great Britain, circulated among the Victorian middle class, and many of these texts expressed concerns about child malnutrition.[3]
Synopsis
In A Little Princess, Becky is a
scullery maid at the Select Seminary.[4] In her first appearance, Becky stands by the school's kitchen steps while watching Sara Crewe, which Crewe notices.[5] When Becky realizes Crewe has spotted her, she enters the kitchen, exiting the scene.[6]
In Becky's next scene, she listens in while Crewe tells other students a story about a mermaid.[7]
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ISBN978-0-230-36412-7.
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ISBN9780429912757.
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doi:
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