A Stoic Little Princess
The Wisdom of Frances Hodgson Burnett through Sara Crewe

In 1865, a melancholy fog sat upon the United States. The over 600,000 dead haunted a blood-stained and fatigued American people. It was at this hiatus, amid the departing darkest days and the abrupt assassination of an American president that Frances Hodgson Burnett planted her feet on Ellis Island. Frances was born and raised…