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- The secret garden, it turns out, was real. Burnett, in 1898, facing awful publicity surrounding an impending divorce, fled to England where she rented a vast Misselthwaite-ish manor in Kent called Great Maytham Hall.
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The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in The American Magazine (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in England, it is seen as a classic of English children's literature.
The Secret Garden, novel for children written by American author Frances Hodgson Burnett and published in book form in 1911. The pastoral story of self-healing through nature and companionship became a classic of children’s literature and is considered to be among Burnett’s best work.
- THE SETTING WAS INSPIRED BY A REAL GARDEN. Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1898, Burnett rented Great Maytham Hall in Kent, a Downton Abbey-style manor with a walled kitchen garden.
- THE ORIGINAL TITLE WAS MISTRESS MARY. Mary’s name comes from the English nursery rhyme: Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row.
- THE SECRET GARDEN IS INFLUENCED BY CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Getty Images. Burnett admired Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science teachings, which include the rejection of medicine in favor of prayer and positive thinking.
- COLIN MAY HAVE BEEN BASED ON BURNETT'S DEAD SON. In 1890, Burnett’s 16-year-old son, Lionel, died from tuberculosis, which devastated his mother. Some biographers think Burnett based the young Colin on Lionel.
May 21, 2020 · It was The Secret Garden (1911), and it had absolutely everything you could possibly want in a story. An admirably sour- faced orphan – Mary Lennox, whose parents die when cholera sweeps through their home in India.
Frances Hodgson Burnett was inspired to write “The Secret Garden” after she moved to a house in England that had a walled garden. The garden had been neglected for years, and Burnett began working to restore it.
Aug 7, 2020 · The story of The Secret Garden is inherently dark: 10-year-old Mary Lennox (Kate Maberly) is orphaned after a devastating earthquake in British-colonized India, and is shipped off to a freaky...
Nov 9, 2020 · We loved The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett during our childhood, as many of you doubtlessly did. A look at it from an adult’s perspective, though, makes clear that it’s far from simply a child’s book.
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