Authors: Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thorndike Press
ISBN-13: 9780786261949, ISBN-10: 0786261943
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Gale Group
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: Large Print
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) grew up in England, but she began writing what was to become The Secret Garden in 1909, when she was creating a garden for a new home in Long Island, New York. Burnett was already established as a novelist for adults when she turned to writing for children. Little Lord Fauntleroy, written for her two young boys; the play A Little Princess, which became the basis for the novel of the same name; and The Secret Garden are the works for which she is most warmly remembered.
In this beloved children's story, Mary Lennox, an ill-tempered orphan is sent to live in England with an uncle she has never met. While there, she discovers a spoiled cousin and a long-abandoned garden. Working to restore the garden, she finds she also cures her own ill temper and reforms her cousin as well
[Neglected Colin] lives the life of a spoilt and incurable invalid until the arrival of an orphaned cousin. The two children secretly combine to restore his mother's locked garden and Colin to health and his father's affection.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
The Text of The Secret Garden | 1 | |
Facsimile of the opening page of The Secret Garden | 2 | |
The Secret Garden | 3 | |
Illustrations | 174 | |
First episode of The Secret Garden (October 1910) | 174 | |
Frances Hodgson Burnett (December 17, 1881) | 175 | |
Frances Hodgson Burnett (Caricature) (1906?) | 176 | |
Backgrounds and Contexts | ||
[The End of an Era] | 179 | |
Digging in the Garden: The Manuscript of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett | 186 | |
My Robin | 199 | |
In the Garden | 209 | |
Letters | 215 | |
Vivian Burnett to Frances Hodgson Burnett (April 10, 1911) | 215 | |
Frances Hodgson Burnett to Vivian Burnett (April 16, 1911) | 216 | |
Frances Hodgson Burnett to Vivian Burnett (April 20, 1910) | 217 | |
Frances Hodgson Burnett to Vivian Burnett (April 1911) | 217 | |
Frances Hodgson Burnett to Elizabeth Jordan (no date) | 219 | |
From A Far, Fair Country | 219 | |
Burnett in the Press | ||
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1881) | 222 | |
Authors at Work-III (1889) | 226 | |
The Boston Mind Cure (1885) | 227 | |
The Lounger (no date) | 228 | |
Mrs. Burnett Protests (1889) | 229 | |
Mrs. Burnett's Timely Protest (1889) | 234 | |
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett at Home: A Visit to Maytham Hall, Rolvenden, Kent (1902) | 235 | |
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett Finds a New Field for Her Pen (1906) | 238 | |
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Authoress of "Little Lord Fauntleroy"-Has Something to Say about Children and Children's Books (1907) | 242 | |
[Untitled] (1907) | 246 | |
A New Thought Mixed with Fantasy Is Served in Guise of Melodrama (1909) | 246 | |
Mrs. Burnett Not a Christian Scientist (1909) | 249 | |
'There Is No Devil,' Asserts Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett (1910) | 250 | |
Social Sets of Other Cities (1910) | 252 | |
Mrs. Burnett and the Occult (1913) | 255 | |
The Magic in Children's Books (1920) | 259 | |
Criticism | ||
Reviews and Mentions of the Secret Garden | ||
From New York Literary Notes (1911) | 265 | |
What Was Hid In a Garden (1911) | 265 | |
The New Books (1911) | 267 | |
From A Guide to New Books (1911) | 268 | |
From The Way of Letters (1911) | 269 | |
Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden" (1911) | 269 | |
The Secret Garden. By Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911) | 270 | |
From Reviews of New Books. Fifty of the Season's Best Books for Children (1911) | 271 | |
One Hundred Christmas Books (1911) | 271 | |
From The Nation (1911) | 272 | |
From American Monthly Magazine (1911) | 272 | |
From The Bookman, Christmas 1911 | 273 | |
From Among the Authors (1912) | 274 | |
From The Way of Letters (1912) | 274 | |
From Among the Authors (1913) | 275 | |
Modern Critical Views of the Secret Garden | ||
The Critical and Commercial Reception of The Secret Garden, 1911-2004 | 277 | |
Gardens, Houses, and Nurturant Power in The Secret Garden | 287 | |
Secrets and Healing Magic in "The Secret Garden" | 302 | |
Digging Up The Secret Garden: Noble Innocents or Little Savages? | 314 | |
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden | 324 | |
The Mem Sahib, the Worthy, the Rajah and His Minions: Some Reflections of the Class Politics of The Secret Garden | 342 | |
Influenced by the Secret Garden | ||
Strip Mines in the Garden: Old Stories, New Formats, and the Challenge of Change | 367 | |
Noel Streatfeild's Secret Gardens | 387 | |
The Secret Garden "Misread": The Broadway Musical as Creative Interpretation | 422 | |
Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Chronology | 443 | |
Selected Bibliography | 453 |