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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett she was born on November 24, 1849, was a novelist in 1865 moved to America and lived there with her family, focused on children's literature, when she was living in Tennessee, began to publish her first texts. 

In her job as a novelist, Hodgson obtained success as author of children's books, in her most popular books we can find, "The Little Lord", "The Little Princess" and, "The Secret Garden".

In 1924 Frances Hodgson died of a heart attack 

THE SECRET GARDEN

 

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett 

Publication date: August 1911 

Genre: Children's novel 

The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, published in 1911, which revolves around a orphan girl, Mary Lennox

the story begins in India, where she lived with her parents, those who never cares about her, thanks to this neglected treatment she gets ill and become a gross and selfish person.
Then a illness reaches India and ends killing Mary's parents and servants, that is why Mary have to move to Yorkshire, England, with her uncle,Sr. Archibald Craven, in a big, boring and isolated house, where her adventure begins.

At the beginning Mary is a rude person who express her disagreement with her new life but in the course of the story we can see the change that Mary suffers in her personality, becoming a friendly person with her maid Martha and showing interest in her life, especially in her mother and her brother Dickon,who is a nature lover.

With the pass of the time she discovers that the house where she live has many secrets, one of that is the secret garden which once belonged to her deceased aunt.
Of course with the time she discovers the secret garden, with some help of the robin, but she realized that all in the walled garden is dead, but with the help of Dickon, she gives life back to this.
In the process we also know Mr. Craven's son who, like Mary, is a stubborn and rude child, this is the moment in which Mary discovers the true importance of being kind to other people.

I personally think that history is a metaphor to show that we can face our own problems and change our reality, this is how it shows three completely different children who discover a place which gives them the opportunity to have a personal change, changing their lives forever

Key words: bad-tempered, bury, hop, disagreeable, horrid, magic, shocked, skip, wander, whisper.