Description
The Secret Garden is a novel by the British novelist Frances Hodgson Burnett and was published in 1911. It was considered a classic children’s story based on the heroine that tells of a young orphaned girl named Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, at his isolated mansion in Yorkshire, England after both her parents die of cholera in India.
Mary is spoiled and sulky at the outset. However, as she explores the estate, she discovers a mysterious, locked garden that has been abandoned since the death of her uncle’s wife. She, with the help of a local boy named Dickon and her sickly cousin Colin, gradually revives the garden, bringing it back to life. As the trio tends the garden, Mary, Colin, and even the reclusive uncle know healing of emotions and physical bodies as they learn about friendship, compassion, and nature’s restorative power.
The novel is abounding with themes that relate renewal, nature, and personal transformation to emerge into an eternal story of hope and growth.
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