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1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Hugger-mugger Garden

Forepart embrace of the Us edition
Author	Frances Hodgson Burnett
Illustrator	M. L. Kirk (U.s.a.) Charles Robinson (UK)[1]
Country	Uk and The states
Genre	Children's novel
Publisher	Frederick A. Stokes (US) William Heinemann (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland)[2]
Publication appointment	1911 (Britain[2] & United states[1])
Pages	375 (UK[2] & US[three])
LC Class	PZ7.B934 Se 1911[3]
Text	The Cloak-and-dagger Garden at Wikisource

The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett beginning published in book form in 1911, afterward serialisation in The American Mag (Nov 1910 – August 1911). Set in England, it is one of Burnett's about popular novels and seen as a classic of English language children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made. The American edition was published by the Frederick A. Stokes Company with illustrations past Maria Louise Kirk (signed as M. L. Kirk) and the British edition past Heinemann with illustrations by Charles Heath Robinson.^{[1] [iv]}

Plot summary [edit]

At the plow of the 20th century, Mary Lennox is a neglected and unloved 10-year-old daughter, born in British India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her and made an endeavor to ignore her. She is cared for primarily by native servants, who allow her to go spoilt, demanding and self-centred. After a cholera epidemic kills Mary's parents, the few surviving servants flee the house without Mary.

She is discovered by British soldiers who place her in the temporary care of an English language chaplain, whose children taunt her by calling her "Mistress Mary, quite contrary." She is soon sent to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, whom her begetter's sister Lilias married. He lives on the Yorkshire Moors in a large English country firm, Misselthwaite Manor. When escorted to Misselthwaite by the housekeeper Mrs Medlock, she discovers Lilias Chicken is dead and that Mr Craven is a hunchback.

At first, Mary is as sour and rude equally ever. She dislikes her new home, the people living in information technology and, most of all, the dour moor on which it sits. Over fourth dimension, she befriends her maid Martha Sowerby, who tells Mary about Lilias, who would spend hours in a private walled garden growing roses. Lilias Craven died later on an accident in the garden 10 years prior, and the devastated Archibald locked the garden and buried the key.

Mary becomes interested in finding the hush-hush garden herself, and her ill manners brainstorm to soften as a consequence. Before long, she comes to enjoy the company of Martha, the gardener Ben Weatherstaff and a friendly robin redbreast. Her health and attitude better with the bracing Yorkshire air, and she grows stronger as she explores the estate gardens. Mary wonders nearly the secret garden and nearly mysterious cries that echo through the business firm at night.

Every bit Mary explores the gardens, the robin draws her attending to an area of disturbed soil. Here, Mary finds the key to the locked garden, and eventually she discovers the door to the garden. She asks Martha for garden tools, which Martha sends with Dickon, her 12-year-erstwhile brother, who spends virtually of his time out on the moors. Mary and Dickon accept a liking to each other, as Dickon has a kind mode with animals and a good nature. Eager to absorb his gardening knowledge, Mary tells him about the surreptitious garden.

I night, Mary hears the cries one time more than and decides to follow them through the house. She is startled to find a male child of her age named Colin, who lives in a subconscious bedroom. She soon discovers that they are cousins, Colin being the son of Archibald, and that he suffers from an unspecified spinal problem which precludes him from walking and causes him to spend all of his time in bed. He, like Mary, has grown spoilt, enervating and cocky-centered, with servants obeying his every whim in order to prevent the frightening hysterical tantrums Colin occasionally flies into. Mary visits him every day that week, distracting him from his troubles with stories of the moor, Dickon and his animals and the secret garden. Mary finally confides that she has admission to the secret garden, and Colin asks to see it. Colin is put into his wheelchair and brought outside into the secret garden. Information technology is the first fourth dimension he has been outdoors for several years.

While in the garden, the children look up to see Ben Weatherstaff looking over the wall on a ladder. Startled to observe the children in the secret garden, he admits that he believed Colin to exist "a cripple." Angry at being called "crippled", Colin stands up from his chair and finds that his legs are fine, though weak from long disuse. Colin and Mary soon spend almost every 24-hour interval in the garden, sometimes with Dickon as visitor. The children and Ben conspire to keep Colin'south recovering wellness a hugger-mugger from the other staff and so as to surprise his father, who is travelling abroad.

As Colin's health improves, his begetter experiences a coinciding increment in spirits, culminating in a dream where his late married woman calls to him from inside the garden. When he receives a alphabetic character from Mrs Sowerby, he takes the opportunity to finally return home. He walks the outer garden wall in his married woman's memory, only hears voices inside. He finds the door unlocked and is shocked to see the garden in full bloom and his son healthy, having just won a race against Mary. The children tell him the whole story, and the servants watch, stunned, equally Archibald and Colin walk back to the manor together.

Theme of rejuvenation [edit]

The cloak-and-dagger garden at Misselthwaite Manor is the site of both the near-destruction and the subsequent regeneration of a family.^[5] Some other theme is the way a thing that is neglected withers and dies but when information technology is worked on and cared for, it thrives, every bit Mary and Colin do.

Background [edit]

At the fourth dimension Burnett began working on The Secret Garden, she had already established a literary reputation as a writer of children's fiction and social realist developed fiction.^[6] She had started writing children'due south fiction in the 1880s, with her nearly notable book at the time being her sentimental novel Picayune Lord Fauntleroy (1886).^[seven] Lilliputian Lord Fauntleroy was a "literary awareness" in both the United states of america and Europe, and sold "hundreds of thousands of copies."^[vi] Prior to The Surreptitious Garden, she had also written another notable work of children's fiction, A Little Princess (1905), which had begun as a story published in the American children'due south magazine St. Nicholas Mag in 1887 and was afterward adapted as a play in 1902.^[8]

Petty is known nigh the literary development and conception of The Secret Garden.^[9] Biographers and other scholars take been able to glean the details of Burnett's process and thoughts on her other books through her letters to family members; during the time she was working on The Secret Garden, however, she was living in close proximity to them and thus did not demand to transport them letters.^[ix] Burnett started the novel in spring 1909, as she was making plans for the garden at her abode in Plandome on Long Isle.^[x] In an Oct 1910 alphabetic character to William Heinemann, her publisher in England, she described the story, whose working championship was Mistress Mary, every bit "an innocent thriller of a story" that she considered "one of [her] best finds."^[eleven] Biographer Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina offers several explanations equally to why in that location is so trivial surviving information on the book'south development. Firstly, Burnett's health faltered later moving to her home in Plandome, and her social excursions became limited as a result. Secondly, her existing notes about The Hugger-mugger Garden, along with a portrait of her and some photographs, were donated past her son Vivian later on her death to a lower Manhattan public school serving the deaf in remembrance of her visit at that place years previously, but all the items soon vanished from the archive of the schoolhouse. Lastly, a few weeks before the novel'southward publication, her brother-in-police force died in a collision with a trolley, an consequence that likely darkened the novel's publication.^[12]

Burnett'southward story My Robin, even so, offers a glimpse of the creation of The Underground Garden.^[13] In it, she addresses a reader's question on the literary origins of the robin that appears in The Secret Garden, whom the reader felt "could not have been a mere brute of fantasy."^[xiv] Burnett reminisces on her friendship with the existent-life English robin, whom she described as "a person—non a mere bird" and who oft kept her company in the rose garden where she would often write, when she lived at Maytham Hall.^[xiv] Recounting the first fourth dimension she tried to communicate with the bird via "low, soft, little sounds," she writes that she "knew—years later—that this is what Mistress Mary thought when she bent down in the Long Walk and 'tried to make robin sounds.'"^[15]

Maytham Hall in Kent, England, where Burnett lived for a number of years during her wedlock, is ofttimes cited as the inspiration for the book'due south setting.^[sixteen] Biographer Ann Thwaite writes that while the rose garden at Mayham Hall may accept been "crucial" to the novel's development, Maytham Hall and Misselthwaite Estate are physically very dissimilar.^[16] Thwaite suggests that, for the setting of The Surreptitious Garden, Burnett may take been inspired by the moors of Emily Brontë'due south 1847 novel Wuthering Heights, given that Burnett just went once to Yorkshire, to Fryston Hall.^[17] She writes that Burnett may have also taken inspiration from Charlotte Brontë'due south 1847 novel Jane Eyre, noting parallels between the 2 narratives: both of them, for example, feature orphans sent to "mysterious mansions," whose master is largely absent.^[18] Burnett herself was enlightened of the similarities, remarking in a letter that Ella Hepworth Dixon had described it as a children's version of Jane Eyre.^[11]

Scholar Gretchen Five. Rector has examined the author'southward manuscript of The Secret Garden, which she describes as "the only tape of the novel'due south development."^[19] Eighty of the outset hundred pages of the manuscript are written in black ink, while the balance and subsequent revisions were made in pencil; the spelling and punctuation tend to follow the American standard. Chapter headings were included prior to the novel'south serialization and are not nowadays in the manuscript, with chapters in it delineated by numbers just.^[20] The pagination of the manuscript was likely done by a second person: it goes from i to 234, only to restart at the nineteenth chapter.^[20] From the title page, Rector surmises that the novel's first title was Mary, Mary quite Contrary, later on changed to its working title of Mistress Mary.^[nineteen] Mary herself is originally nine in the manuscript, only to exist aged upwards a twelvemonth in a revision, perhaps to highlight the "convergent paths" of Mary, Colin, and the garden itself; however, this revision was not reflected in either the British or the American first editions of the novel, or in later editions.^[21] Susan Sowerby is initially introduced to the readers as a deceased character, with her daughter Martha perhaps intended to fill her role in the story; Burnett, however, changed her mind about Susan Sowerby, writing her as a living character a few pages after and crossing out the declaration of her death.^[22] Additionally, Dickon in the manuscript was physically disabled and used crutches to move around, maybe drawing on Burnett's recollections of her first hubby, Dr. Swan Burnett, and his concrete disability. Burnett later on removed references to Dickon'south disability.^[23]

Publication history [edit]

The Underground Garden may be one of the first instances of a story for children first appearing in a mag with an adult readership,^[24] an occasion of which Burnett herself was aware at the fourth dimension.^[11] The Clandestine Garden was start published in ten bug (Nov 1910 – Baronial 1911) of The American Magazine, with illustrations by J. Scott Williams.^[25] It was beginning published in book form in August 1911 by the Frederick A. Stokes Visitor in New York;^[26] it was besides published that yr by William Heinemann in London. Its copyright expired in the United states of america in 1987 and in most other parts of the world in 1995, placing the book in the public domain. Every bit a result, several abridged and unabridged editions were published in the tardily 1980s and early 1990s, such every bit a full-colour illustrated edition from David R. Godine, Publisher in 1989.

Inga Moore'south abridged edition of 2008, illustrated by her, is arranged so that a line of the text also serves as a caption to a pic.

Public reception [edit]

Marketing to both developed and juvenile audiences may have had an effect on its early reception; the book was less historic than Burnett'due south previous works during her lifetime.^[27] Tracing the book's revival from about complete eclipse at the time of Burnett'due south expiry in 1924, Anne H. Lundin noted that the author's obituary notices all remarked on Little Lord Fauntleroy and passed over The Surreptitious Garden in silence.^[28]

With the rise of scholarly piece of work in children's literature in the 25 years leading up to 2006, The Secret Garden has risen steadily in prominence. It is often noted as one of the best children's books of the 20th century.^[27] In 2003 it ranked No. 51 in The Big Read, a survey of the British public by the BBC to identify the "Nation's Best-loved Novel" (not just children'due south novel).^[29] Based on a 2007 online poll, the U.South. National Instruction Association listed it as 1 of "Teachers' Elevation 100 Books for Children".^[30]

In 2012 it was ranked No. 15 among all-time children'due south novels in a survey published by Schoolhouse Library Journal, a monthly with a primarily US audience.^[31] (A Little Princess was ranked number 56 and Little Lord Fauntleroy did non make the Top 100.)^[31] Jeffrey Masson considers The Secret Garden "ane of the greatest books ever written for children".^[32] In an oblique compliment, Barbara Sleigh has her title grapheme reading The Hugger-mugger Garden on the train at the showtime of her children's novel Jessamy and Roald Dahl, in his children'due south book Matilda, has his title grapheme say that she liked The Undercover Garden all-time of all the children'due south books in the library.^[33]

Adaptations [edit]

Movie [edit]

The motion picture version was fabricated in 1919 by the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, with 17-year-old Lila Lee as Mary and Paul Willis as Dickon. The film is believed lost.

In 1949, MGM filmed the second adaptation, which starred Margaret O'Brien as Mary, Dean Stockwell every bit Colin and Brian Roper equally Dickon. This version was mainly black-and-white, but with the sequences ready in the restored garden filmed in Technicolor. Noel Streatfeild'southward 1948 novel The Painted Garden was inspired by the making of this film.

American Zoetrope's 1993 product was directed by Agnieszka Holland with a screenplay by Caroline Thompson and starred Kate Maberly as Mary, Heydon Prowse as Colin, Andrew Knott every bit Dickon, John Lynch as Lord Craven and Matriarch Maggie Smith equally Mrs Medlock. The executive producer was Francis Ford Coppola.

A 2017 production by Dogwood Motion Picture Company is available on the BYUtv Network. This is a science fiction adaptation in the Victorian fashion based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett; filmed, directed and written for the screen by Owen Smith (more info at IMDb).

The 2020 motion-picture show version from Heyday Films and StudioCanal is directed by Marc Munden with a screenplay by Jack Thorne.^[34]

Television [edit]

Dorothea Brooking adapted the volume as several unlike tv serials for the BBC: an eight-function series in 1952, an eight-part series in 1960 (featuring Colin Spaull equally Dickon), and a seven-part serial circulate in 1975 (also on DVD).^[35] The 1952 accommodation was a live broadcast and no telerecordings are thought to have ever existed.^[36] The 1960 adaptation is missing 3 of its eight episodes, and has effectively not been seen publicly in decades.^[37]

Authentication Hall of Fame filmed a Television set movie adaptation of the novel in 1987, which starred Gennie James as Mary, Barret Oliver as Dickon and Jadrien Steele as Colin. Billie Whitelaw appeared as Mrs Medlock and Derek Jacobi played the role of Archibald Craven, with Alison Doody appearing in flashbacks and visions as Lilias; Colin Firth made a brief appearance as the adult Colin Chicken. The story was changed slightly. Colin'southward father, instead of being Mary's uncle, was now an old friend of Mary'southward begetter, assuasive Colin and Mary to brainstorm a relationship as adults by the pic's finish. Information technology was filmed at Highclere Castle, which later became known equally the filming location for Downton Abbey. It aired on Nov 30. In 2001, Hallmark produced a sequel entitled Dorsum to the Secret Garden.

A 1994 animated adaptation as an ABC Weekend Special starred Honor Blackman as Mrs. Medlock, Derek Jacobi as Archibald Craven, Glynis Johns as Darjeeling, Victor Spinetti, Anndi McAfee as Mary Lennox, Joe Bakery as Ben Weatherstaff, Felix Bell as Dickon Sowerby, Naomi Bell as Martha Sowerby, Richard Stuart every bit Colin Craven and Frank Welker as Robin. This version was released on video in 1995 by ABC Video.^{[38] [39]}

In Japan, NHK produced an anime adaptation of the novel in 1991–1992 entitled Anime Himitsu no Hanazono (アニメ ひみつの花園). Miina Tominaga contributed the voice of Mary, while Mayumi Tanaka voiced Colin. The 39-episode TV series was directed past Tameo Kohanawa and written past Kaoru Umeno. This anime is sometimes mistakenly assumed to exist related to the pop dorama series Himitsu no Hanazono. It is unavailable in English linguistic communication, but has been dubbed into several other languages including: Spanish, Italian, Polish and Tagalog.

Theatre [edit]

A video trailer from Angel Leave Theatre Company's leap 2012 national tour of their Arts Quango-funded production of The Secret Garden, timed to coincide with the centenary of Burnett's novel

Phase adaptations of the book include a Theatre for Young Audiences version written in 1991 by Pamela Sterling of Arizona State University. This won an American Brotherhood for Theater and Education "Distinguished New Play" honour and is listed in ASSITEH/USA's International Bibliography of Outstanding Plays for Young Audiences.^[40]

Multiple musical adaptations have been made. In 1986, at that place was "The Secret Garden: A New Musical" with book and lyrics by Sharon Burgett,^[41] and another version was released in 1987 with the volume and lyrics by Diana Morgan.^[42] However, the most well-known version and the only 1 that seems to accept come up to fruition is the 1991 musical version which opened on Broadway, with music past Lucy Simon and book and lyrics past Marsha Norman. The production was nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning Best Book of a Musical and Best Featured Extra in a Musical for Daisy Eagan as Mary, then 11 years quondam.

Festival Theatre Edinburgh presented a musical adaptation in 2010-2011 on stages in Scotland and Canada.^{[43] [44]}

In 2013 an opera by the American composer Nolan Gasser, which had been deputed past the San Francisco Opera, was commencement performed at the Zellerbach Hall at the University of California, Berkeley.

A stage play past Jessica Swale adapted from the novel was performed at Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre in Chester in 2014.^[45]

In 2020, the Scottish family theatre company Red Bridge Arts produced a retelling of the story set in modern-24-hour interval Scotland, adapted by Rosalind Sydney.^[46]

Radio [edit]

In 1997, Focus On The Family Radio Theatre produced an adaptation in which Joan Plowright narrated equally the older Mary Lennox. The cast included Ron Moody as Ben Weatherstaff.

Volume forms and sequels [edit]

In 2021, 2 versions of the story, adapted into graphic novels, were released. The first, released on June xv, was The Cloak-and-dagger Garden: A Graphic Novel, with story by Mariah Marsden and illustrations by Hanna Luechtefeld.^[47] The second, released on October nineteen, was a modern retelling by Ivy Noelle Weir, The Secret Garden on 81st Street, following the aforementioned vein as the author's previous Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.^[48]

Citations [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c} The Undercover Garden title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
2. ^ ^{a b c} "British Library Item details". primocat.bl.uk . Retrieved 16 December 2018.
3. ^ ^{a b} The Secret Garden (first edition). Library of Congress Online Catalog. LCCN Permalink (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 24 March 2017. The itemize record reports 4 leaves of plates, 4 color illustrations (uncredited).
4. ^ WorldCat library records:
   OCLC 1289609, OCLC 317817635 (U.s.); OCLC 8746090 (UK).
   Retrieved 24 March 2017.
5. ^ K. Gohike (1980), "Re-reading The Secret Garden". Higher English language 41 (8), 894–902.
6. ^ ^{a b} Horne & Sanders 2011, p. xv.
7. ^ Bixler 1996, p. iv.
8. ^ Bixler 1996, p. 5.
9. ^ ^{a b} Gerzina 2004, p. 261.
10. ^ Thwaite 1974, pp. 219–220.
11. ^ ^{a b c} Gerzina 2004, p. 262.
12. ^ Gerzina 2004, pp. 265–266.
13. ^ Gerzina 2004, p. 266.
14. ^ ^{a b} Burnett 2007, p. 261.
15. ^ Burnett 2007, p. 263.
16. ^ ^{a b} Thwaite 2006, p. 28.
17. ^ Thwaite 2006, pp. 28–29.
18. ^ Thwaite 1974, pp. 220–221.
19. ^ ^{a b} Rector 2006, p. 189.
20. ^ ^{a b} Rector 2006, p. 187.
21. ^ Rector 2006, p. 190.
22. ^ Rector 2006, p. 191.
23. ^ Rector 2006, pp. 194.
24. ^ Gerzina 2007, p. xxxviii.
25. ^ "The American Magazine, November 1910". FictionMags Index. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
26. ^ "New York Literary Notes". The New York Times. xvi July 1911. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
27. ^ ^{a b} Lundin, A. (2006). "The Critical and Commercial Reception of The Hole-and-corner Garden". In the Garden: Essays in Honour of Frances Hodgson Burnett. Angelica Shirley Carpenter (ed.) Toronto: Scarecrow Press.
28. ^ A. Lundin, Constructing the Canon of Children'southward Literature: Beyond Library Walls, 133 ff.
29. ^ "BBC – The Big Read". BBC. Apr 2003, Retrieved xviii Oct 2012
30. ^ National Education Association (2007). "Teachers' Meridian 100 Books for Children". Retrieved 22 August 2012.
31. ^ ^{a b} Bird, Elizabeth (vii July 2012). "Top 100 Chapter Book Poll Results". A Fuse #8 Production. Blog. Schoolhouse Library Periodical (web log.schoollibraryjournal.com). Retrieved 22 August 2012.
32. ^ Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff (1980). The Oceanic Feeling: The Origins of Religious Sentiment in Aboriginal India. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel. ISBN90-277-1050-three.
33. ^ Barbara Sleigh: Jessamy (London: Collins, 1967), p. vii and Roald Dahl: Matilda (London: Jonathan Cape, 1988) (see this excerpt from Matilda).
34. ^ Tartaglione, Nancy (20 January 2018). "Marc Munden To Helm The Underground Garden For David Heyman & Studiocanal". Borderline Hollywood . Retrieved 25 March 2018.
35. ^ Traxy (16 January 2011). "The Secret Garden (1975)". Thesqueee.co.uk. Retrieved viii May 2019.
36. ^ "The Secret Garden (1952–): Trivia". IMDb.
37. ^ "The Secret Garden (1960): Trivia". IMDb.
38. ^ ABC Weekend Specials: The Undercover Garden (TV episode 1994) at IMDb
39. ^ Lynne Heffley (four November 1994). "Television Review: Blithe 'Garden' Wilts on ABC". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 14 October 2014.
40. ^ "The Hugger-mugger Garden". Dramatic Publishing . Retrieved v March 2020.
41. ^ The Underground Garden - A New Musical (1994, CD) , retrieved 1 December 2021
42. ^ The cloak-and-dagger garden: a musical, England: [publisher not identified] : Distributed by Dress Circle, 1993, OCLC 29463845, retrieved 16 December 2021
43. ^ "The Underground Garden". Mirvish . Retrieved vii April 2021.
44. ^ "The Undercover Garden: Can't see the tender shoots for the grown-up trees". Toronto Star. 13 February 2011. Retrieved seven April 2021.
45. ^ "The Hole-and-corner Garden". Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
46. ^ Fisher, Mark (sixteen February 2020). "The Secret Garden review – grunts and gags in lush retelling". The Guardian . Retrieved v March 2020.
47. ^ The Secret Garden: A Graphic Novel. Andrews McMeel Publishing. fifteen June 2021. ISBN978-1-5248-6964-9.
48. ^ Weir, Ivy Noelle (19 October 2021). The Secret Garden on 81st Street: A Modern Graphic Retelling of The Secret Garden. Trivial, Brown Books for Young Readers. ISBN978-0-316-45968-6.

References [edit]

• Bixler, Phyllis (1996). The Secret Garden: Nature'due south Magic. New York: Twayne Publishers. ISBN9780805788150.
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson (2007). "My Robin". In Gretchen Gerzina (ed.). The Annotated Secret Garden. New York: W.Due west. Norton. ISBN978-0-393-06029-iv.
• Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook (2004). Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Writer of The Underground Garden. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. ISBN978-0813533827.
• Gerzina, Gretchen, ed. (2007). "Introduction". The Annotated Undercover Garden. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN978-0-393-06029-4.
• Horne, Jackie C.; Sanders, Joe Sutliff (2011). "Introduction". Frances Hodgson Burnett'due south The Secret Garden: A Children'southward Classic at 100. Children'southward Literature Clan and The Scarecrow Printing. ISBN9780810881877.
• Rector, Gretchen (2006). "The Manuscript of The Hush-hush Garden". In Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina (ed.). The Clandestine Garden: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Burnett in the Press, Criticism. New York: West. W. Norton & Company. ISBN9780393926354.
• Thwaite, Ann (1974). Waiting for the Political party: The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849-1924. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
• Thwaite, Ann (2006). "A Biographer Looks Back". In Angelica Shirley Carpenter (ed.). In the Garden: Essays in Honour of Frances Hodgson Burnett. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press. ISBN978-0-8108-5288-iv.

External links [edit]

• The Secret Garden at Standard Ebooks
• The Secret Garden at Projection Gutenberg (plainly text and HTML illustrated)
• The Secret Garden public domain audiobook at LibriVox
• The Secret Garden, bachelor at Internet Archive. New York: F. A. Stokes, 1911 (colour scanned book)
• The Cloak-and-dagger Garden From the Collections at the Library of Congress

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