The Secret Garden |The Secret Garden| |Author(s)||Frances
Hodgson Burnett| |Publisher||Frederick A. Stokes (US) The Secret
Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially
published in serial format starting in the autumn of 1910, and
was first published in its entirety in 1911. It is now one of
Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic
of English children's literature. Several stage and film
adaptations have been produced. Mary Lennox is a sour-faced
10-year-old girl, who is born in India to selfish wealthy
British parents who had not wanted her and were too wrapped up
in their own lives. She was taken care of primarily by servants,
who pacified her as much as possible to keep her out of the way.
Spoilt and with a temper, she is unaffectionate, angry, rude and
obstinate. Later, there is a cholera epidemic which hits India
and kills her mother, father and all the servants. She is
discovered alone but alive after the house is empty. She is sent
to Yorkshire, England to live