Despite Lucille forbidding her from attending and giving her more than enough housework to keep her busy, Ella planned to go, mostly as a way to spite her, as well as search for a potentially better job than a housemaid.
They receive news that the king and queen are holding a royal ball. It is through him that Ella learns the rumors surrounding her engagement involving a fairy godmother and a pumpkin coach, and she tells him the truth.Įlla was forced into servitude to her stepmother, Lucille, and stepsisters, Corimunde and Griselda, after the death of her father. She despises Madame Bisset, who is in charge of her training, but makes friends with Mary, a young servant girl, and Jed Reston, who is standing in for his father (who had a stroke) as her history teacher. For the most part, she finds life at the palace to be dull, soon discovers the prince seems to be lacking in both charm and brains and laments the fact that noblewomen have virtually no power whatsoever. A companion novel, Palace of Mirrors, was released in 2008.įifteen-year-old Ella Brown of Fridesia, now known as Princess Cynthiana Eleanora, is engaged to Prince Charming and living in the palace preparing for the wedding day and life as a princess. The plot revolves around Ella, a beautiful girl struggling to find the true meaning of happiness. The story is a retelling of Cinderella with a feminist twist and a different version of the happily-ever-after ending.
Just Ella is a novel written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published in 1999 by Simon & Schuster.
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