The Secret Garden Summary
Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden Summary

Mary Lennox has lived all her nine years with her parents in India, in the care of an ayah, ignored by her parents, and left to become a miserable little tyrant. She appears to be very thin and weak; her skin is yellow and her hair limp. She is orphaned by an epidemic of cholera. She goes to live at the home of her uncle, Archibald Craven, whose very large and old estate is at the edge of a moor in Yorkshire, England. Its grounds include many walled gardens, including one that has been locked for ten years.

Mrs. Medlock, the housekeeper, travels to London to bring Mary to her uncle's estate. Her uncle is home when she arrives, but does not wish to see her that evening. He departs the next morning to resume the travel that has occupied him for ten years. Mary awakens her first morning and... View more of the The Secret Garden Summary