Fiction · 1911
The Secret Garden
Mary Lennox, orphaned in India and sent to her uncle’s house on the Yorkshire moors, is sour, sallow and unwanted. She finds a walled garden that has been locked for ten years, a robin, a boy who talks to animals, and a cousin hidden in the house, and between them the garden comes back to life.
Frances Hodgson Burnett published the novel in 1911. It was not at first her most popular book, and became, during the twentieth century, one of the most loved of all children’s novels.
The twenty-seven chapters are given complete, from “There Is No One Left” to “In the Garden”.
Contents
- Chapter I — There Is No One Left
- Chapter II — Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
- Chapter III — Across the Moor
- Chapter IV — Martha
- Chapter V — The Cry in the Corridor
- Chapter VI — “There Was Someone Crying—There Was!”
- Chapter VII — The Key to the Garden
- Chapter VIII — The Robin Who Showed the Way
- Chapter IX — The Strangest House Anyone Ever Lived in
- Chapter X — Dickon
- Chapter XI — The Nest of the Missel Thrush
- Chapter XII — “Might I Have a Bit of Earth?”
- Chapter XIII — “I Am Colin”
- Chapter XIV — A Young Rajah
- Chapter XV — Nest Building
- Chapter XVI — “I Won’t!” Said Mary
- Chapter XVII — A Tantrum
- Chapter XVIII — “Tha’ Munnot Waste No Time”
- Chapter XIX — “It Has Come!”
- Chapter XX — “I Shall Live Forever—And Ever—And Ever!”
- Chapter XXI — Ben Weatherstaff
- Chapter XXII — When the Sun Went Down
- Chapter XXIII — Magic
- Chapter XXIV — “Let Them Laugh”
- Chapter XXV — The Curtain
- Chapter XXVI — “It’s Mother!”
- Chapter XXVII — In the Garden
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About the author
1849–1924 · Victorian
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) was born in Manchester and emigrated with her widowed mother to Tennessee in 1865. She supported the family by writing magazine stories and became a successful novelist and playwright on both sides of the Atlantic. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911) are the books for which she is remembered.
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