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The Secret Garden

Contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • The Text of The Secret Garden
  • Background and Contexts
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
    • The American Magazine • First episode of The Secret Garden (October 1910)
    • The Critic • Frances Hodgson Burnett (December 17, 1881)
    • Sunday World • Frances Hodgson Burnett (Caricature, 1906?)
    • The Secret Garden manuscript • Holograph page
    • Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina • From Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected
    • Life of the Author of The Secret Garden
    • Gretchen V. Rector • Digging in the Garden: The Manuscript of The Secret Garden
    • by Frances Hodgson Burnett
      • Frances Hodgson Burnett • My Robin
      • Frances Hodgson Burnett • In the Garden
  • LETTERS
    • Vivian Burnett to Frances Hodgson Burnett (April 10, 1911)
    • Frances Hodgson Burnett to Vivian Burnett (April 16, 1911)
    • Frances Hodgson Burnett to Vivian Burnett (April 20, 1910)
    • Frances Hodgson Burnett to Elizabeth Jordan (no date)
    • Frances Hodgson Burnett • From A Far, Fair Country
  • FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT IN THE PRESS
    • R.H. Stoddard • Frances Hodgson Burnett (1881)
    • Anonymous • Authors at Work—III (1889)
    • Anonymous • The Boston Mind Cure (1885)
    • Anonymous • [title missing] (1889)
    • Frances Hodgson Burnett • Mrs. Burnett Protests (1889)
    • Anonymous • Mrs. Burnett’s Timely Protest (1889)
    • Charlotte Harwood • Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett at Home: A Visit to Maytham Hall, Rolvenden, Kent (1902)
    • Pendennis • Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett Finds a New Field for Her Pen (1906)
    • Anonymous • [title missing] (1907)
    • Louis V. DeFoe • A New Thought Mixed with Fantasy Is Served in Guise of Melodrama (1909)
    • Frances Hodgson Burnett • Mrs. Burnett Not a Christian Scientist (1909)
    • Magda Frances West • ’There Is no Devil,’ Asserts Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett (1910)
    • Anonymous • Social Sets of Other Cities (1910)
    • Anonymous • Society Outside the Capital (1910)
    • Anonymous • Mrs. Burnett and the Occult (1913)
    • Frances Hodgson Burnett • The Magic in Children’s Books (1920)
  • Criticism
  • REVIEWS AND MENTIONS OF THE SECRET GARDEN
    • Anonymous • From New York Literary Notes (1911)
    • Anonymous • The New Books (1911)
    • Anonymous • From A Guide to New Books (1911)
    • Anonymous • From The Way of Letters (1911)
    • R.A. Whay • Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden (1911)
    • Anonymous • The Secret Garden. By Frances Hodgson Burnett. (1911)
    • Anonymous • Reviews of New Books. Fifty of the Season’s Best Books for Children (1911)
    • Anonymous • One Hundred Christmas Books (1911)
    • Anonymous • [title missing] (1911)
    • Anonymous • [title missing] (1911)
    • Anonymous • From The Bookman Christmas (1911)
    • Anonymous • From Among the Authors (1912)
    • Anonymous • From The Way of Letters (1912)
    • Anonymous • From Among the Authors (1913)
  • MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS OF THE SECRET GARDEN
    • Anne Lundin • The Critical and Commerical Reception of The Secret Garden, 1911¨–2004
    • Phyllis Bixler • Gardens, Houses, and Nuturant Power in The Secret Garden
    • Gilliam Adams • Secrets and Healing Magic in The Secret Garden
    • Christine Wilkie • Digging Up The Secret Garden: Noble Innocents or Little Savages?
    • Shirley Foster and Judy Simons • Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden
    • Jerry Phillips • The Mem Sahib, the Worthy, the Rajah and His Minions: Some
    • Reflections on the Class Politics of The Secret Garden
  • INFLUENCED BY THE SECRET GARDEN
    • Margaret Mackey • Strip Mines in the Garden: Old Stories, New Formats, and the Challenge of Change
    • Sally Sims Stokes • Noel Streatfeild’s Secret Gardens
    • Phyllis Bixler • The Secret Garden "Misread": The Broadway Musical as Creative Interpretation
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography