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A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- First published
- 1911
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Fingerprint Publishing, ICON Group International, Inc., Siena Publishing
- Editions
- 1598
- Language
- cat, English, und, French
- ISBN
- 9781541050822
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“Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett was best known as an English playwright and author. Frances Eliza Hodgson was born on November 24, 1849, at Cheetham Hill, Manchester, England, to Eliza Boond and Edwin Hodgson. She was the middle child of five, with two older brothers and two younger sisters. Frances grew up in a comfortable home. Mr. Hodgson sold brass goods to upper class households, and the family had a maid, a nurse-maid, and a horse and carriage. However, in the early 1850's when Frances was only three or four years old, her father died of a stroke, and the family was forced to sell their house and move. Her mother carried on the business, and Frances was often left in the care of her grandmothe
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