If you believe in miracles, this one is for you. In a grand house full of grief, an orphan makes hope bloom bright. When her parents die, Mary Lennox is sent to her uncle’s mansion on the Yorkshire moors. The house is full of lingering sadness. But one day, Mary finds a locked garden in the grounds: a secret haven, lost for years. Behind the gate is a magical place which will transform Mary’s lonely life…

A heartwarming treasure loved for over 100 years

By much-loved classic author Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances wrote A Little Princess and Little Lord Fauntleroy

Themes of embracing hope and making positive changes

Product Details

Catalogue number

8550 in Secondary Rewards Catalogue 2019/20 and 6973 in Rewards Catalogue 2019/20

Series

Scholastic Classics

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407196121

Date published

September 5th, 2019

Other details

320 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Available in these packs

Scholastic Classics Pack x 6

usd prices

Price: $43.00

gbp prices

Price: £29.65
Scholastic Classics: The Secret Garden x 30

usd prices

Price: $217.07

gbp prices

Price: £149.70
Scholastic Classics: The Secret Garden x 6

usd prices

Price: $43.41

gbp prices

Price: £29.94

Series

Scholastic Classics

Author/Illustrator

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in 1849 in Manchester but when her father died Frances’s mother emigrated with her sons and daughters to Tennessee in the United States. Life there was harsh and they were quite poor but the young Frances would entertain herself and her siblings with stories. And then in 1868, at the age of eighteen, she went out with her sister to pick grapes and made enough money from that job to buy paper and stamps. She wrote out a romantic tale and sent it off to a magazine. Marvellously, her story was accepted and from that day forward she became the breadwinner in her family, writing up to six stories a month.

When she married a man called Swan Burnett in 1872, she kept up her writing. Frances’s two sons, Lionel and Vivian, would sleep beneath her desk as toddlers. It was unusual for a woman to earn her own money and support her family in the way that Frances did so people in nineteenth-century England and America were very surprised. Many newspapers and magazines were interested in her private life and wrote about her, much like they do about celebrities today.

In 1890, something very sad happened and Frances‘s son, Lionel, died at the age of sixteen. When she wrote about Colin in The Secret Garden Frances might have been thinking about her own son and wishing that his sickness could have been cured. Her other son, Vivian, lived and Frances once made him a real velvet suit. The sight of him in his smart suit inspired her to write her book Little Lord Fauntleroy.