Frances Hodgson Burnett
24) The lost prince
25) Louisiana
Two young women are sent to a North Carolina resort to recover after illnesses. One is a cultured New Yorker, and the other—the Louisiana of the book's title—is a beautiful but unpolished country girl. Both find themselves out of their element at the resort, so they band together and become fast friends—and learn a lot about what it means to be different in the process.
In this moving short story from Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The Secret Garden, a French family finds its social status zooming upward due to a daughter's marriage into an upper-class clan. But the salt-of-the-earth friends and neighbors of the Giraud family are deeply skeptical of what they see as brazen social climbing—and they aren't shy about expressing their displeasure.
Author Frances Hodgson Burnett spent several years living in Paris as a young wife and mother, and her own life experiences and observations heavily influenced the series of stories that Burnett set in France, including the novella Le Monsieur de la Petite Dame. This tale examines the cultural differences between Americans and the French through the lens of a newly arrived American family and the French grand dames they encounter.