The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When little Mary comes to live with her uncle in the Misselthwaite Manor,

she finds herself lost and lonely amidst winding corridors and rooms with

closed doors. The house, and everything in it, is under a pall of gloom ever

since the death of her aunt a decade back. Soon Mary learns to let go of

her inhibitions and responds with warmth to those who work there, finding

friendship and happiness.

One day, while exploring the manor, Mary comes across a locked door in

the garden wall. What happens when she decides to enter it?

One of the most endearing stories of discovering what lies hidden within,

The Secret Garden is a magical tale of transformation that has enthralled

the young and old for generations.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson: - Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 - 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. After her father died in 1852, when Frances was 3 years old, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling in New Market, Tennessee. There, Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In 1870, her mother died, and in 1872 she married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor. The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their two sons were born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C. Burnett then began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o' Lowrie's), was published to good reviews. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess. Beginning in the 1880s, Burnett began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there, where she wrote The Secret Garden. Her elder son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1890, which caused a relapse of the depression she had struggled with for much of her life. She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898, married Stephen Townsend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902. A few years later she settled in Nassau County, New York, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery. In 1936, a memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in her honour in Central Park's Conservatory Garden. The statue depicts her two famous Secret Garden characters, Mary and Dickon.

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ISBN 13	9780517632253
ISBN 10	051763225X
Title	The Secret Garden
Author	Frances Hodgson Burnett
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1988-12-12
Number of pages	272
Prizes	Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003
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