The Secret Garden

Mary Lennox is a spoilt, unpleasant little girl who goes to live with her uncle on his enormous estate in Yorkshire after the death of her parents in India. Left very much to herself she explores the grounds of the house and finds the secret garden which has been locked up for ten years...

The Secret Garden is a much-loved children's book that is still important today, and has been made into a successful film.

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester, England in 1849. When she was sixteen years old, she and her family emigrated to Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. She wrote a lot of very popular books for children. Her most famous novel, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) started a fashion in velvet suits for small boys!

The Secret Garden is a much-loved children's book that is still popular today, and has been made into a successful film. The story of how two sad, unwanted children find happiness by tending an abandoned garden delights children and adults of today as much as it did when it was first written in 1911.

Some Notes on the Author

The World of the Secret Garden



Chapter 1 - A Spoiled Little Girl

Chapter 2 - Mary Visits the Gardens

Chapter 3 - A Cry in the Night

Chapter 4 - Dickon

Chapter 5 - Colin

Chapter 6 - Wet weather

Chapter 7 - I Will Live For Ever and Ever1

Chapter 8 - Magic