The Secret Garden

     

About 

Children's story writer. At first, she continued with short stories

for magazines, but in 1886 Little Lord Fauntleroy was published

in book form  to immediate acclaim all around the world.

     She wrote over forty books altogether, for both adults and children. Her adult novels are of sentimental veins that are now 

thoroughly out of fashion; but in 1911 he turned her love of 

gardening into a book which will continue to survive all the vageries of  fashion in  reading ---- The Secret Garden. The secret

of the book's success is not just the writer's gift for story-telling,

 but her instinctive knowledge of child psychology, reflected in her portrait of how Mary Lennox and her friends bloom as they turned 

their garden and turn it into a small paradise in the middle of the bleak Yorkshire landscape. It has justly been described as one of the most satisfying children's books ever written.  

CHAPTER -- 1

There is No One Left

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she the was most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin body, thin     light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she said 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 always busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only for go parties and amuse herself  with gay people. She had not   wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah. who was made to understand that

if she wish to please the memsahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible.........

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