4 THE SECRET GARDEN
Frances Hodgson Burnett Retold by Sorrel Pitts
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THE SECRET GARDEN Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester, England in 1849. Her father died when she was three, and, in 1865, her family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee. When she was still a teenager, she began to write and sell stories to magazines. In 1872, she married a doctor, and the couple went on to have two sons. In 1877, she published her first novel, and went on to publish a number of very successful novels, including Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886). She began to travel back to England frequently, and for ten years lived in a large house in Kent. The gardens there helped her when she wrote The Secret Garden (1911). She died near New York in 1924.
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From India to England
Mary Lennox never saw much of her mother when she lived in India. She was cared for by her servant, and she usually stayed in a part of the house where few people came. She had teachers, but they usually left after a short time, because Mary was a selfish, spoiled, and difficult child, and she was often rude to them. Mary’s father worked a lot, and he was usually too busy to see her. Her mother was very beautiful, and she liked to go to parties or spend time with other guests at the house. She didn’t want a child, and she told the servants to keep Mary away from her. If she heard Mary crying, she became angry. 5
The Secret Garden
One morning, when Mary was nine years old, she woke up to find her servant was not in her room and the house was very quiet. Mary waited for someone to come, but they did not. Another day passed and the little girl became hungry and thirsty. She went to the kitchen and found a bit of bread and drank some water; then she came back to her room and went back to sleep. She woke up many hours later when her bedroom door opened and a man came in. “Good Lord, there is a child here!” he said. “Who is she?” “I’m Mary Lennox,” Mary replied. “I fell asleep. Why is no one looking after me?” “Because there’s no one here to care for you,” replied the man. “Oh, you poor child! The cholera has killed them all!”
A few weeks later, Mary was sitting in a cold, dirty, train carriage. Opposite her was a woman who wore a purple dress and a cheap hat. Her name was Mrs. Medlock and she was taking Mary to a place called Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire, England. Mary was going to live with her uncle, a man called Archibald Craven. Mary did not like Mrs. Medlock – she rarely liked anybody – and Mrs. Medlock did not like Mary very much either, because she was thin and she had a spoiled face. Mrs. Medlock didn’t have much time for rude children like her. But they were traveling for a long time, and after several hours, Mrs. Medlock began to talk. “What do you know about your uncle?” she asked. Mary looked at her and shook her head. “Your mother and father never told you about him?” 6
“No,” said Mary. “But then they never told me much about anything.” “Well, you’re going to a strange place,” said Mrs. Medlock. “The house is very big and dark and it’s next to the moor. It has nearly a hundred rooms in it, and most of them are locked. Outside there’s a big park with lots of gardens. But that’s all. There’s nothing else.” 7