The Secret Garden

By (author) Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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Orphaned Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle at Misselthwaite Manor, a remote mansion on the Yorkshire moors. She is a lonely child and miserable until she stumbles upon the key to an overgrown secret garden that has been locked for ten years. The discovery brings a miraculous change in Mary and leads to Misselthwaite Manor giving up its dark secret.


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Biographical note:
Frances Hodgson Burnett 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). 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.