The Secret Garden

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Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

ISBN-10: 0486280241

ISBN-13: 9780486280240

Category: Classics -> Young readers -> Children's fiction

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In this beloved children's story, Mary Lennox, an ill-tempered orphan is sent to live in England with an uncle she has never met. While there, she discovers a spoiled cousin and a long-abandoned garden. Working to restore the garden, she finds she also cures her own ill temper and reforms her cousin as wellFour to Fourteen[Neglected Colin] lives the life of a spoilt and incurable invalid until the arrival of an orphaned cousin. The two children secretly combine to restore his mother's locked garden and Colin to health and his father's affection.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsThe Text of The Secret Garden1Facsimile of the opening page of The Secret Garden2The Secret Garden3Illustrations174First episode of The Secret Garden (October 1910)174Frances Hodgson Burnett (December 17, 1881)175Frances Hodgson Burnett (Caricature) (1906?)176Backgrounds and Contexts[The End of an Era]179Digging in the Garden: The Manuscript of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett186My Robin199In the Garden209Letters215Vivian Burnett to Frances Hodgson Burnett (April 10, 1911)215Frances Hodgson Burnett to Vivian Burnett (April 16, 1911)216Frances Hodgson Burnett to Vivian Burnett (April 20, 1910)217Frances Hodgson Burnett to Vivian Burnett (April 1911)217Frances Hodgson Burnett to Elizabeth Jordan (no date)219From A Far, Fair Country219Burnett in the PressFrances Hodgson Burnett (1881)222Authors at Work-III (1889)226The Boston Mind Cure (1885)227The Lounger (no date)228Mrs. Burnett Protests (1889)229Mrs. Burnett's Timely Protest (1889)234Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett at Home: A Visit to Maytham Hall, Rolvenden, Kent (1902)235Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett Finds a New Field for Her Pen (1906)238Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Authoress of "Little Lord Fauntleroy"-Has Something to Say about Children and Children's Books (1907)242[Untitled] (1907)246A New Thought Mixed with Fantasy Is Served in Guise of Melodrama (1909)246Mrs. Burnett Not a Christian Scientist (1909)249'There Is No Devil,' Asserts Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett (1910)250Social Sets of Other Cities (1910)252Mrs. Burnett and the Occult (1913)255The Magic in Children's Books (1920)259CriticismReviews and Mentions of the Secret GardenFrom New York Literary Notes (1911)265What Was Hid In a Garden (1911)265The New Books (1911)267From A Guide to New Books (1911)268From The Way of Letters (1911)269Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden" (1911)269The Secret Garden. By Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)270From Reviews of New Books. Fifty of the Season's Best Books for Children (1911)271One Hundred Christmas Books (1911)271From The Nation (1911)272From American Monthly Magazine (1911)272From The Bookman, Christmas 1911273From Among the Authors (1912)274From The Way of Letters (1912)274From Among the Authors (1913)275Modern Critical Views of the Secret GardenThe Critical and Commercial Reception of The Secret Garden, 1911-2004277Gardens, Houses, and Nurturant Power in The Secret Garden287Secrets and Healing Magic in "The Secret Garden"302Digging Up The Secret Garden: Noble Innocents or Little Savages?314Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden324The Mem Sahib, the Worthy, the Rajah and His Minions: Some Reflections of the Class Politics of The Secret Garden342Influenced by the Secret GardenStrip Mines in the Garden: Old Stories, New Formats, and the Challenge of Change367Noel Streatfeild's Secret Gardens387The Secret Garden "Misread": The Broadway Musical as Creative Interpretation422Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Chronology443Selected Bibliography453