![]() ![]() However, The Secret Garden was quite a departure from her earlier works, as two of the main characters are quite unlikable, hence the story’s original distribution via an adult magazine. She wrote several classic novels apart from The Secret Garden, including Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess. There she began writing stories to earn money and soon became a successful novelist, playwright, and children’s author. It was first published in 1911, after being serialised in The American Magazine the year before.įrances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester, England, in 1849 but moved to America in 1865 after her father died and her family fell on hard times. ![]() ![]() The Secret Garden is a classic children’s novel about a disagreeable young orphan Mary Lennox, whose heals her own sickly soul when she moves from British India to the wild Yorkshire Moors and makes friends while rebuilding a hidden garden there after finding a mysterious key. ![]()
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