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Article: TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'THE SECRET GARDEN' BY FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- September 10, 2006
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Anyone who has read The Secret Garden will feel that the walled,
abandoned and secretly-visited garden is a symbol of great richness
and power. T. S. Eliot obviously felt so, and remembered it in Burnt
Norton, right down to the roses, the bird who guides the way and 'the
hidden laughter/Of children in the foliage.' It was deeply personal
for Frances Hodgson Burnett too. A keen gardener who wrote on ...