About The Secret Garden
When Mary Lennox's parents die from cholera in India, the spoiled orphan is transplanted to her uncle's 600-year-old gloomy and secretive estate in England. She is certain that she is destined for misery at Misselthwaite Manor. When Mary meets the old groundskeeper, he is the first to tell her what he thinks of her, "We was wove out of th' same cloth. We're neither of us good lookin' an' we're both of us as sour as we look. We've got the same nasty tempers, both of us, I'll warrant."
However, she soon discovers an arched doorway into an overgrown garden, locked shut since the death of her aunt ten years earlier. Fate grants Mary access to the secret garden and she begins transforming it into a thing of beauty--unaware that she too is changing.

The beloved story has entertained and inspired children and adults, and has been widely adapted for the stage and screen .

About Author Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett is best remembered for
The Secret Garden, but she was also a prolific author of novels and plays for adults.

Burnett became a practitioner of Christian Science after the the premature death of her son as well as to deal with her own personal illness. As a result, The Secret Garden espouses the benefits of theosophy and ideas about the healing powers of the mind.