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Article: The Secret Garden.(Book Review)
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- Hollins Critic
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- October 1, 1991
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The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Graham Rust. Boston: David R. Godine, $17.95 (b.b.)
The Secret Garden, deservedly one of the world's best-loved children's books, was first published in 1911. At that time Burnett was already the author of that best-selling bane of so many little boys' existences--Little Lord Fauntleroy--and of the charming boarding school story A Little Princess. An Anglo-American, Burnett came to the United States while in her teens, returned to England for nine years in midlife, then spent the remainder of her life in this country. The Secret Garden was written during this final period, but the book is thoroughly ...