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Becky
Becky (right) with Sara Crewe (left)
First appearanceA Little Princess (1905)
Created byFrances Hodgson Burnett

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

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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]

Interpretation

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Adaptations

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African American actress Vanessa Lee Chambers portrays Becky in Alfonso Cuarón's 1995 film adaptation.[8]

In Wishing for Tomorrow, author Hilary McKay's 2010 sequel to A Little Princess, Becky gets married.[9]

Notes

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  1. ^ Knoepflmacher (2002, pp. vii, xiv).
  2. ^ Kirkland (1997, p. 194); Knoepflmacher (2002, p. xiv).
  3. ^ Gasperini (2022, pp. 2–5).
  4. ^ Sardella-Ayres & Reese (2022, p. 7).
  5. ^ Reimer (2000, p. 120).
  6. ^ Gasperini (2022, p. 11).
  7. ^ Knoepflmacher (2002, p. xi).
  8. ^ George (2009, pp. 151–152).
  9. ^ Stevenson (2010, p. 255).

Sources

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  • Gasperini, Anna (2022). "Little Precossi, Stunted Becky: A Comparative Analysis of Child Hunger and National Body Health Discourses in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century Children's Literature in Italian and English". Modern Languages Open (1): 1–18. doi:10.3828/mlo.v0i0.393.
  • George, Rosemary Marangoly (2009). "British Imperialism and US Multiculturalism: The Americanization of Burnett's A Little Princess". Children's Literature. 37: 137–164. doi:10.1353/chl.0.0812.
  • Jenkins, Ruth Y. (2016). Victorian Children's Literature: Experiencing Abjection, Empathy, and the Power of Love. Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-32762-4. ISBN 978-3-319-32761-7.
  • Kirkland, Janice (December 1997). "Frances Hodgson Burnett's Sara Crewe through 110 Years". Children's Literature in Education. 28 (4): 191–203. doi:10.1023/A:1022419120433. ISSN 0045-6713.
  • Knoepflmacher, U. C., ed. (2002). A Little Princess. Penguin Classics. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-243701-8.
  • Parkes, Christopher (2012). Children's Literature and Capitalism: Fictions of Social Mobility in Britain, 1850–1914. Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137265098. ISBN 978-0-230-36412-7.
  • Reimer, Mavis (2000). "Making Princesses, Re-making A Little Princess". In McGillis, Roderick (ed.). Voices of the Other: Children's Literature and the Postcolonial Context. Routledge. pp. 111–135. doi:10.4324/9780203357682. ISBN 978-0-815-33284-8.
  • Richman, Kenneth A. (2016). "Philosophical Perspectives: Dignity as Arche and Dignity as Telos". In Levine, Susan S. (ed.). Dignity Matters: Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Perspectives. Routledge. pp. 49–60. doi:10.4324/9780429473753. ISBN 9780429912757.
  • Sardella-Ayres, Dawn; Reese, Ashley N. (2022). "Sisters, Bosom Chums, and Enemies: How Secondary Female Characters Subvert the Girls' Bildungsromane". Barnboken: Journal of Children's Literature Research. 45: 1–18. doi:10.14811/clr.v45.719. ISSN 0347-772X.
  • Stevenson, Deborah (February 2010). "McKay, Hilary Wishing for Tomorrow; illus. by Nick Maland. McElderry, 2010 [288p]". Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. 63 (6): 255. doi:10.1353/bcc.0.1486.
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