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There was this one anime that used to air on Animax quite often when I was a
kid. It was this story about a girl who was from a rich family (not too sure
about that) who goes through some sort of tragedy and is then forced to work
as a maid at an all-girls boarding school with a really strict and
unreasonable warden. The girl was fair, she had long, black hair and she
almost always used to wear this greenish dress. It was set in Europe somewhere
(possibly old England). Drawing style was almost "cartoonish" (very little
shading and all). If it helps, some of the anime's that used to air around the
same time as this were Astro Boy, InuYasha, ExRider, Saber Marionette,
Detective School Q, etc. Any help greatly appreciated. ^__^


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Looking for an old anime I saw on Animax as a kid


This sounded like the novel _A Little Princess_ to me, so I searched to see if
there was an anime based on that. Turns out there is one called [Princess
Sarah](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Sarah), and apart from the green
dress, it seems to match your description. (The protagonist does wear a green-
ish dress in some of the pictures I've seen from the anime while searching for
this, but she doesn't in a couple of them.) I am also not sure if the anime
series aired at around the right time.


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This series is called [Little Princess
Sara](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=444) which is
an anime adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel "A Little Princess". It
is the 11th series in the [World Masterpiece
Theater](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Masterpiece_Theater) collection.
When Sara becomes a maid she is always wearing a dark green dress.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Wlzfy.png)


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