Frances Hodgson Burnett
isachildren’snovelfirst published in 1911. When orphaned Mary Lennox arrives at her uncle’s gloomy Yorkshire manor, she discovers a locked garden that has been aban doned for ten years. As Mary uncovers the garden’s secrets, she befriends a nature-loving boy and finds her bedridden cousin Colin hidden away in the house. Together, the children work to restore the forgotten garden, and in doing so, begin transforming themselves and those around them.MaryLennoxwas sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with herun cleeverybodysaidshewasthemostdisagreeable-lookingchildeverseen. It wastrue, too. Shehadalittlethinfaceandalittlethinbody,thinlighthair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had al waysbeenbusyand illhimself,andhermotherhadbeenagreatbeautywho cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanteda little girl atall, andwhenMarywasbornshehandedherovertothe care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much aspossible. So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the wayalso. Shenever rememberedseeingfamiliarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying,
