Book description
Mary Lennox is an orphan who is sent to live with her uncle at gloomy
Misselthwaite Manor. Neglected and lonely, she begins to explore her
new home and learns of a secret garden that her uncle has forbidden
anyone to enter. A friendly robin shows Mary the key to the garden and
she discovers a world she could never have imagined...
The Secret Garden has enchanted generations of children and
adults alike.
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester in 1849. After living
in poverty, she emigrated to the US in 1865. She wrote over forty books;
the best-known today are
The Secret Garden, A Little Princess
and
Little Lord Fauntleroy
. She died in 1924.
