The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
English • Published 1911 • Public Domain • Free to stream
Young Mary Lennox, sent from India to her uncle's vast estate in Yorkshire, stumbles upon a locked and overgrown garden abandoned for ten years. With the help of the moor boy Dickon and her sickly cousin Colin, she revives the garden while transforming her own life through love and connection.
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About the book: The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was first published in book form in 1911, following serialisation in The American Magazine between November 1910 and August 1911. The American edition was published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company, while the British edition was published by Heinemann.
Set in England, the story follows a neglected girl who is sent to live with her uncle in a large country house on the Yorkshire Moors. There, she discovers a locked garden and helps to restore both the garden and her sickly cousin to health. It is seen as a classic of English children's literature.
One of the author's other works, My Robin, offers a glimpse of the creation of the book, as Burnett addressed the literary origins of the robin that appears in the novel. She reminisced on her friendship with a real-life English robin who kept her company in the rose garden where she would often write.
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The Secret Garden was written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, published in 1911.
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The Secret Garden is a children's classic novel now in the public domain.