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Since its publication in 1911, The Secret Garden has delighted generations of readers with its timeless appeal. It has been translated into dozens of languages and has been reworked into plays and films. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition and is accompanied by explanatory annotations.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

The Text of The Secret Garden

1

(442)

Facsimile of the opening page of The Secret Garden

2

(1)

The Secret Garden

3

(171)

Illustrations

174

(41)

The American Magazine

First episode of The Secret Garden (October 1910)

174

(1)

The Critic

Frances Hodgson Burnett (December 17, 1881)

175

(1)

Sunday World

Frances Hodgson Burnett (Caricature) (1906?)

176

(3)

Backgrounds and Contexts

[The End of an Era]

179

(7)

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Digging in the Garden: The Manuscript of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

186

(13)

Gretchen V. Rector

My Robin

199

(10)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

In the Garden

209

(6)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Letters

215

(228)

Vivian Burnett to Frances Hodgson Burnett (April 10, 1911)

215

(1)

Frances Hodgson Burnett to Vivian Burnett (April 16, 1911)

216

(1)

Frances Hodgson Burnett to Vivian Burnett (April 20, 1910)

217

(1)

Frances Hodgson Burnett to Vivian Burnett (April 1911)

217

(2)

Frances Hodgson Burnett to Elizabeth Jordan (no date)

219

(1)

From A Far, Fair Country

219

(3)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Burnett in the Press

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1881)

222

(4)

R. H. Stoddard

Authors at Work---III (1889)

226

(1)

Anonymous

The Boston Mind Cure (1885)

227

(1)

Anonymous

The Lounger (no date)

228

(1)

Anonymous

Mrs. Burnett Protests (1889)

229

(5)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mrs. Burnett's Timely Protest (1889)

234

(1)

Anonymous

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett at Home: A Visit to Maytham Hall, Rolvenden, Kent (1902)

235

Charlotte Harwood

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett Finds a New Field for Her Pen (1906)

242

(246)

Pendennis

Anonymous

[Untitled] (1907)

246

(1)

Anonymous

A New Thought Mixed with Fantasy Is Served in Guise of Melodrama (1909)

246

(3)

Lonis V. De Foe

Mrs. Burnett Not a Christian Scientist (1909)

249

(1)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

`There Is No Devil,' Asserts Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett (1910)

250

(2)

Magda Frances West

Social Sets of Other Cities (1910)

252

(3)

Anonymous

Mrs. Burnett and the Occult (1913)

255

(4)

Anonymous

The Magic in Children's Books (1920)

259

(6)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Criticism

Reviews and Mentions of the Secret Garden

From New York Literary Notes (1911)

265

(1)

Anonymous

What Was Hid In a Garden (1911)

265

(2)

Anonymous

The New Books (1911)

267

(1)

Anonymous

From A Guide to New Books (1911)

268

(1)

Anonymous

From The Way of Letters (1911)

269

(1)

Anonymous

Frances Hodgson Burnett's ``The Secret Garden'' (1911)

269

(1)

R. A. Whay

The Secret Garden. By Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)

270

(1)

Anonymous

From Reviews of New Books. Fifty of the Season's Best Books for Children (1911)

271

(1)

Anonymous

One Hundred Christmas Books (1911)

271

(1)

Anonymous

From The Nation (1911)

272

(1)

Anonymous

From American Monthly Magazine (1911)

272

(1)

Anonymous

From The Bookman, Christmas (1911)

273

(1)

Anonymous

From Among the Authors (1912)

274

(1)

Anonymous

From The Way of Letters (1912)

274

(1)

Anonymous

From Among the Authors (1913)

275

(2)

Anonymous

Modern Critical Views of the Secret Garden

The Critical and Commercial Reception of The Secret Garden, 1911-2004

277

(10)

Anne Lundin

Gardens, Houses, and Nurturant Power in The Secret Garden

287

(15)

Phyllis Bixler

Secrets and Healing Magic in ``The Secret Garden''

302

(12)

Gillian Adams

Digging Up The Secret Garden: Noble Innocents or Little Savages?

314

(10)

Christine Wilkie

Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden

324

(18)

Shirley Foster

Judy Simons

The Mem Sahib, the Worthy, the Rajah and His Minions: Some Reflections of the Class Politics of The Secret Garden

342

(25)

Jerry Phillips

Influenced by the Secret Garden

Strip Mines in the Garden: Old Stories, New Formats, and the Challenge of Change

367

(20)

Margaret Mackey

Noel Streatfeild's Secret Gardens

387

(35)

Sally Sims Stokes

The Secret Garden ``Misread'': The Broadway Musical as Creative Interpretation

422

(21)

Phyllis Bixler

Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Chronology

443

(10)

Selected Bibliography

453

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