St. Nicholas Magazine was a popular monthly American children's magazine, founded by Scribner's in 1873 and named after the Christian saint . The first editor was Mary Mapes Dodge , who continued her association with the magazine until her death in 1905. Dodge published work by the country's leading writers, including Louisa May Alcott , Frances Hodgson Burnett , Mark Twain , Laura E. Richards and Joel Chandler Harris . Many famous writers were first published in St. Nicholas League , a department that offered awards and cash prizes to the best work submitted by its juvenile readers. Edna St. Vincent Millay , F. Scott Fitzgerald , E. B. White , and Stephen Vincent Benét were all St. Nicholas League winners.
41-683: (Redirected from The Little Princess ) Little Princess may refer to: A Little Princess , a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess (Lippa musical) , a 2004 musical adaptation by Andrew Lippa The Little Princess (1917 film) , starring Mary Pickford The Little Princess (1939 film) , starring Shirley Temple A Little Princess (1973 miniseries) , starring Deborah Makepeace A Little Princess (1986 miniseries) , starring Amelia Shankley and Maureen Lipman A Little Princess (1995 film) , starring Liesel Matthews and Eleanor Bron Sarah... Ang Munting Prinsesa ,
82-497: A 1995 Filipino film adaptation starring Camille Prats, Angelica Panganiban and Jean Garcia A Little Princess (1997 film) , starring Anastasia Meskova Shōkōjo Seira , a 2009 Japanese film adaptation Little Princess (automobile) , a cyclecar built by the Princess Cyclecar Company Little Princess (British TV series) , a children's animated television series Little Princess (album) ,
123-646: A 1999 RPG from the Marl Kingdom series See also [ edit ] Princess (disambiguation) Little Prince (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Little Princess . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Little_Princess&oldid=1200064982 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
164-414: A 2009 album by Tim Sparks "The Little Princess", a religious tract published by Chick Publications The Little Princesses , a non-fiction book by Marion Crawford about her time as governess for Princess Elizabeth Little Princess (Philippine TV series) , a Filipino television drama romance series starring Jo Berry Games [ edit ] Little Princess: Maru Oukoku no Ningyou Hime 2 ,
205-402: A boarding school presenting a production of A Little Princess . Music and book was by Cheri Steinkellner and Bill Steinkellner, and lyrics and direction by David Zippel . In 1995, Apple published a series of three books written by Gabrielle Charbonnet . " The Princess Trilogy " was an updated version of the classic, with the title character named Molly, rather than Sara. Molly Stewart's father
246-470: A circulation of 70,000 subscribers. In 1881, the Scribner publishing house withdrew from ownership of its two magazines, and they were purchased by The Century Company . Scribner's Monthly became Century Magazine , and St. Nicholas: Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys became St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks . The printing and art facilities of the prosperous new owner
287-515: A cold and poorly furnished attic, forcing her to earn her keep by working as a servant. For the next two years Miss Minchin starves and overworks Sara, turning her into a menial servant and unpaid tutor, with the prospect of turning her into an under-paid teacher when she is old enough. Most of the students take their tone from Miss Minchin, but Sara is consoled by her few friends and uses her imagination to cope with her bleak existence. She continues to be kind and polite to everyone, even her abusers, in
328-539: A few years it had acquired numerous competing children's periodicals. Magazines that merged with St. Nicholas were Our Young Folks and The Children's Hour in 1874, The Schoolday Magazine and The Little Corporal in 1875, and Wide Awake in 1893. From the start, St. Nicholas was beautifully printed with illustrations from a consistent group of artists and wood engravers, such as Walter James Fenn , used by Scribner & Company's other magazine, Scribner's Monthly . In 1899 St. Nicholas League began. It
369-625: A gold-stamped title. These bound volumes are available through used book sellers. Many anthologies of favorite St. Nicholas stories have been compiled. The two best-known collections were edited by Henry Steele Commager and published by Random House (the head of Random House, Bennett Cerf, had once been a St. Nicholas subscriber and (as noted above) contributor to the famous St. Nicholas League ). The St. Nicholas Anthology came out in 1948, followed by The Second St. Nicholas Anthology in 1950. Treasury of Best-Loved Stories, Poems Games & Riddles from St. Nicholas Magazine, edited by Commager,
410-577: Is apparently abandoned at a boarding school. Burnett first introduced Sara Crewe in 1888 in print. She returned to the material in 1902, penning the three-act stage play A Little Un-fairy Princess , which ran in London over the autumn of that year. Around the time it transferred to New York City at the start of 1903 the title was shortened to A Little Princess . It was A Little Princess in London, but The Little Princess in New York. Burnett said that after
451-523: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages A Little Princess A Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett , first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story "Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's", which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888. According to Burnett, after she composed
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#1732884177340492-413: Is no doubt about it," E.B. White wrote. "The fierce desire to write and paint that burns in our land today, the incredible amount of writing and painting that still goes on in the face of heavy odds, are directly traceable to St Nicholas." Many St. Nicholas League winners went on to achieve prominence. The most prolific poetry contest winner was Edna St. Vincent Millay , who had seven poems published in
533-474: The League . E.B. White and Bennett Cerf won essay contests. William Faulkner made the honor roll for his drawings, and F. Scott Fitzgerald was honored for a photograph. From 1873 until 1881, Mary Mapes Dodge was involved with the day-to-day operations of all aspects of St. Nicholas . She created the magazine departments, wrote the monthly column Jack-in-the-Pulpit, and contributed many stories and poems. In
574-691: The "Large Family" – while they are equally curious about her and call her "the little girl who is not a beggar". Mr. Carrisford is revealed to have been Captain Crewe's partner in the diamond mine venture. Thinking all was lost and both suffering from severe illness, Carrisford abandoned Captain Crewe and wandered in a delirium. When he recovered, it was to find Crewe dead – and the mines a reality. Extremely rich but suffering both ill health and pangs of conscience, he returns to England and makes it his mission to find Sara, though he does not know where to look. Meanwhile Ram Dass, Mr Carrisford's Indian servant, climbs across
615-519: The 1902 play A Little Un-fairy Princess based on that story, her publisher asked that she expand the story as a novel with "the things and people that had been left out before". The novel was published by Charles Scribner's Sons (also publisher of St. Nicholas Magazine ) with illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts and the full title A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Being Told for
656-867: The First Time . Captain Ralph Crewe, a wealthy English widower , has been raising his only child, a daughter named Sara, in India where he is stationed with the British Army . Because the Indian climate is considered too harsh for their children, British families living there traditionally send their children to boarding school back home in England . The Captain enrolls his seven-year-old daughter at an all-girls boarding school in London and dotes on his daughter so much that he orders and pays
697-602: The November 1885 issue. Her novella Sara Crewe appeared in the December 1887 issue. Other novels to be serialized in St. Nicholas were Louisa May Alcott 's Eight Cousins and Mark Twain 's Tom Sawyer Abroad . Dodge asked Rudyard Kipling to do a fiction series, and he sent her the Jungle Book stories. Within a few years, St. Nicholas increased in size to 96 pages, and reached
738-479: The author of children's novels, including the best-seller Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates . Dodge had specific ideas about what a children's magazine should and shouldn't be. She felt it must not be "a milk-and-water variety of the periodicals for adults. In fact, it needs to be stronger, truer, bolder, more uncompromising than the other.... Most children...attend school. Their heads are strained and taxed with
779-493: The belief that conduct, not money, make a true princess. On one of the bleakest days when she herself is ravenous, she finds a coin and buys six buns, but gives a beggar-child five of them because the latter is starving. During this time Mr. Carrisford moves into the house next to the seminary. He is an extremely wealthy invalid come from abroad and retains Mr. Carmichael, a solicitor who lives nearby. Sara has often observed Mr. Carmichael's big and loving family, whom she has dubbed
820-474: The book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". In 2012 it was ranked number 56 on a list of the top 100 children's novels published by School Library Journal . The novella appears to have been inspired in part by Charlotte Brontë 's unfinished novel Emma , the first two chapters of which were published in Cornhill Magazine in 1860, featuring a rich heiress with a mysterious past who
861-574: The day's lessons. They do not want to be bothered nor amused nor petted. They just want to have their own way over their own magazine." The first issue of St. Nicholas: Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys was dated November, 1873. It had 48 pages and a press run of 40,000 copies. Although St. Nicholas never reached the high circulation numbers of some other magazines (in the 1890s The Youth's Companion had 500,000 subscribers compared with St Nicholas's 100,000 in Christmas 1883 ), within
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#1732884177340902-458: The first issue she explained why she chose St. Nicholas for the name of the magazine: In order to retain her juvenile readers for many years, Dodge created departments for different age groups. For Very Little Folks (1873–1897) was a page of simple stories printed in large type. The Puzzle Box contained riddles, math and word games. Young Contributors Department (begun in 1875) encouraged the writing skills of older children. The Agassiz Association
943-472: The haughty headmistress , Miss Minchin, for special treatment and exceptional luxuries for Sara, such as a private room for her with a personal maid and a separate sitting room (see parlour boarder ), along with Sara's own private carriage and a pony. Miss Minchin openly fawns over Sara for her money, but is secretly envious and dislikes Sara almost from the outset. Intelligent, imaginative and kind, Sara sees through flattery and remains unspoiled; she embraces
984-470: The magazine. Within a few years, St. Nicholas began a steady decline in circulation. In November 1927 George F. Thomson, the former editor of Our Young Folks (a magazine taken over by St. Nicholas in 1874) became editor. He was replaced after two years, and a rapid turnover of editors began. In 1930 St. Nicholas was sold to American Education Press , and the magazine's full name was changed to St. Nicholas for Boys and Girls . In 1935 St. Nicholas
1025-449: The monkey again visits Sara's attic, and she decides to return it to Mr. Carrisford next morning. He learns that Sara is Captain Crewe's daughter; Sara also learns that Mr. Carrisford was her father's friend – and The Magician. Miss Minchin pays a visit to collect Sara, but is informed that Sara will be living with Mr. Carrisford from now on; not only is her fortune restored, she is now heiress to diamond mines. Miss Minchin tries to retrieve
1066-472: The novel's public domain status, several musical versions of A Little Princess have emerged in recent years, including: Some of these productions have made significant changes to the book, story and characters, most notably the Sickinger/Atkey version, which moves the action to Civil War -era America. In addition, Princesses , a 2004 musical currently in development for Broadway, features students at
1107-411: The previously wealthy captain has lost his entire fortune, investing in a friend's diamond mines. Preteen Sara is left an orphan and a pauper with nowhere to go. Miss Minchin is left with a sizable debt for Sara's school fees and luxuries, including her birthday party. Infuriated and pitiless, she takes away all of Sara's possessions (except for an old black frock and her doll, Emily), and makes her live in
1148-413: The production of the play on Broadway, her publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, asked her to expand the story into a full-length novel and "put into it all the things and people that had been left out before". The book was illustrated by Ethel Franklin Betts and published in 1905 under the full title A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Being Told for the First Time . Due in part to
1189-566: The rest of the boarding school girls after Sara and Becky left ("life must go on at Miss Minchin's"). In 2017 a further sequel was published by Scholastic, The Princess and the Suffragette by Holly Webb . This centres on Lottie, the smallest girl in the original story, who is now 10 and learning about the Suffragettes. Sara makes some brief appearances. St. Nicholas Magazine St. Nicholas Magazine ceased publication in 1940. A revival
1230-558: The roof to retrieve a pet monkey which has taken refuge in Sara's attic. He sees the poor condition of her room and, touched by her courtesy and demeanor, sets out to discover her history. To distract his master from his own sorrows, he tells Mr Carrisford about the "little girl in the attic". Between them they devise a scheme whereby Mr Carrisford becomes "The Magician", a mysterious benefactor who transforms her barren existence with gifts of food and warmth and books – snuck in by Ram Dass. One night
1271-438: The situation, going so far as to threaten legal action if she does not return to the school, and that she will never see any of her friends again, but Sara refuses and Mr Carrisford is adamant. Becky becomes Sara's personal servant and, with her newfound wealth, Sara makes a deal with a baker, proposing to cover the cost of food given to any hungry child. Based on a 2007 online poll, the U.S. National Education Association listed
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1312-547: The staff of St. Nicholas . In 1878 he was promoted to associate editor. Starting in 1881, he took on more responsibilities when, upon the death of her son, Mary Mapes Dodge limited her work load. As editor, Clarke placed more emphasis on departments, perhaps because he lacked Dodge's close ties to famous authors. Departments devoted to short plays, science and philately (stamp collecting) were added to St. Nicholas . Circulation remained at about 70,000. In 1927, Clarke stepped down as editor. He retired in 1928, after 54 years with
1353-459: The status of a 'princess' accorded by the other students, and lives up to it with her compassion and generosity. She befriends Ermengarde, the school dunce ; Lottie, a four-year-old student given to tantrums; and Becky, the stunted scullery maid . Four years later, Sara's eleventh birthday is celebrated at Miss Minchin's with a lavish party. Just as it ends, Miss Minchin learns of Captain Crewe's unfortunate demise due to jungle fever . Furthermore,
1394-460: Was February 1940. With a March 1943 issue, St. Nicholas was brought back, in a format similar to early days. Its owner and editor was Juliet Lit Stearns; business manager was F. Orlin Tremaine . It failed after four issues. A popular service provided to St. Nicholas subscribers was that, for a small fee, six issues could be sent off to be bound into a hard-back volume, with crimson covers and
1435-515: Was a famous film director who left his daughter in a posh upscale boarding school. There were three books in the series, which ended in a similar way as the original: Molly's Heart , The Room on the Attic , and Home at Last . A sequel by Hilary McKay was published by Hodder Children's Books in September 2009: Wishing For Tomorrow: The Sequel to A Little Princess . It tells the story of what happened to
1476-411: Was attempted in 1943, but only a few issues were published before St. Nicholas folded once more. In 1870 Roswell Smith, cofounder of the magazine publishing company Scribner & Company, contacted Mary Mapes Dodge to inquire if she would be interested in working for a projected new children's magazine. At the time Dodge was an associate editor of the weekly periodical Hearth and Home , as well as
1517-431: Was begun in 1885 to develop the awareness of nature, and the importance of conservation. Hundreds of Agassiz chapters were organized across the nation, and reports of activities were printed in the department. Dodge knew many famous writers, and was able to persuade them to submit their work to her magazine. Frances Hodgson Burnett 's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy first appeared as a St. Nicholas serial, beginning in
1558-420: Was made available to St. Nicholas , and the magazine continued to thrive. Dodge's eldest son, Harry, died in 1881. In her grief she relinquished much of her responsibilities to her assistant editor, William Fayal Clarke. Though no longer in control of all day-to-day operations, Dodge continued working at St. Nicholas until her death in 1905. William Fayal Clarke was twenty years old when, in 1874, he joined
1599-410: Was one of the magazine's most important departments, and had the motto of "Live to learn and learn to live." Each month contests were held for the best poems, stories, essays, drawings, photographs, and puzzles submitted by the magazine's young readers. Winners received gold badges, runners-up received silver badges, and "honor members", winners of both gold and silver badges, were sent cash prizes. "There
1640-788: Was published in 1978 by Greenwich House . The first two volumes were reprinted by Greenwich House in 1982 and 1984. In addition, Burton Frye compiled A St. Nicholas Anthology: the Early Years for Meredith House in 1969. In 2003 and again in 2004, William F. Buckley Jr. edited The National Review Treasury of Classic Children's Literature and The National Review Treasury of Classic Children's Literature: Volume Two, both with stories gathered from St. Nicholas. A number of St. Nicholas issues can be downloaded free of charge. Sources shown in External Links are Project Gutenberg and A Tribute to St. Nicholas: A Magazine for Young Folks , which contains
1681-474: Was sold to Educational Publishing Corporation. Editors under the last two owners were Albert Gallatin Lanier (1930), May Lamberton Becker (1930–32), Eric J. Bender (1932–34), Chesla Sherlock (1935), Vertie A. Coyne (1936–40), and Juliet Lit Sterne (1943). In 1940 the format was changed to a large-print picture-and-story-magazine, aimed at beginner readers. Slick paper was replaced with soft paper. The last issue