Project Gutenberg 2005-04-26 Public domain in the USA. 122 Gates, Eleanor 1875 1951 The Poor Little Rich Girl Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Sigal Alon and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "The Poor Little Rich Girl" by Eleanor Gates is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around Gwendolyn, a wealthy little girl who grapples with feelings of disappointment and longing as she experiences the complexities of her life surrounded by affluence yet lacking genuine happiness and freedom. The narrative explores her emotional struggles in a world filled with lavishness and the expectations that come with being a rich child. At the start of the novel, Gwendolyn, on the day of her seventh birthday, checks her height against a mark made on a mirror, only to find that she has not grown as she had hoped. This triggers a cascade of emotions leading to disappointment and grief. As she navigates the nursery, her feelings of being overlooked and undervalued surface, especially in the presence of her governess and nursemaid. The opening establishes her yearning for autonomy and emotional connection against the backdrop of her wealthy upbringing, highlighting her isolation in a world that is seemingly perfect yet emotionally unfulfilling. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Fantasy literature New York (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction Children of the rich -- Juvenile fiction Upper class families -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 392136 392146 2024-09-07T06:31:34.180051 2023-09-07T08:19:20.139669 text/html text/html 405195 2020-12-14T10:59:19 text/html; charset=us-ascii 456435 2020-12-14T10:59:19 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 512809 2024-09-07T06:31:41.597015 application/epub+zip 518603 2024-09-07T06:31:35.990070 application/epub+zip 196474 2024-09-07T06:31:34.839030 application/epub+zip 681424 2024-09-07T06:31:45.737008 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 651005 2024-09-07T06:31:40.891013 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 330568 2022-09-07T23:19:39.468451 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 348202 348123 2024-09-07T06:31:32.903037 2023-09-07T08:19:18.954648 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 347997 2020-12-14T10:59:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 135600 2020-12-14T10:59:19 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19048 2024-09-07T06:31:45.871969 application/rdf+xml 11728 2024-09-07T06:31:35.200028 image/jpeg 3532 2024-09-07T06:31:35.018040 image/jpeg 498341 2024-09-07T06:31:34.226062 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia