She is highly unfamiliar with what it means to be royalty, having grown up with her abusive stepmother and stepsisters. Part of this task involves refining her identity as a princess. Ella, now known publicly as Princess Cynthiana Eleanora, has moved into the royal palace and is busy getting ready for the wedding. The novel begins after Ella Brown of Fridesia is engaged to Prince Charming. The novel touches on many ways in which patriarchal elements manifest, ranging from domestic relationships and marital tensions, to feminine solidarity and one’s conception of selfhood. The story contextualizes Ella within her patriarchal aristocratic society, illuminating how even the most successful women in this kind of system feel disillusioned and frustrated as they internalize their oppression. A feminist reimagining of the classic fairy tale of Cinderella, it follows fifteen-year-old Ella who struggles to find happiness after she ends up in a dead-end marriage with Prince Charming. Just Ella is a 1999 fantasy novel by American author Margaret Peterson Haddix.
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