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Guide to the Classics: The Secret Garden and the healing power of nature
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden has been described as “the most significant children’s book of the 20th century.”
First published in 1911, after being serialised in The American Magazine, it was dismissed by one critic at the time as simple and lacking “plenty of excitement”.
- Emma Hayes
- The Conversation
The novel is, in fact, a sensitive and complex story, which explores how…