The Secret Garden

Published in 1911

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Mary, a little girl in a red coat, pushing aside the ivy to find the hidden door in the garden wall
Illustration: Maria Louise Kirk (1911)

Mary Lennox is a sour, spoiled little girl in India until cholera takes her parents. She is sent to live in her uncle's huge, gloomy house on the Yorkshire moors, where a robin leads her to the key of a garden that has been locked for ten years, and at night she hears someone crying in the corridors. Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 story of a garden coming back to life.