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Frances Hodgson Burnett

1849–1924

Burnett writes about children whose circumstances shrink and whose inner lives expand to meet them. The Secret Garden and A Little Princess share a plain, patient attention to ordinary things — food, weather, a fire in a grate — and to the work of becoming less selfish. Start with The Secret Garden if you want the garden and the slow thawing of a sour boy; start with A Little Princess if you want a London boarding school and a girl learning what dignity costs.

Feels like hope, tenderness and wonder.

Start with The Secret Garden.

Burnett restored the walled rose garden at Maytham Hall in Kent, where a robin grew tame enough to eat from her hand; bird and garden both went into the book.

How an empty garden can be better company than a full house.

The sun was shining inside the four walls and the high arch of blue sky over this particular piece of Misselthwaite seemed even more brilliant and soft than it was over the moor. The robin flew down from his treetop and hopped about or flew after her from one bush to another. He chirped a good deal and had a very busy air, as if he were showing her things. Everything was strange and silent and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at all. All that troubled her was her wish that she knew whether all the roses were dead, or if perhaps some of them had lived and might put out leaves and buds as the weather got warmer. She did not want it to be a quite dead garden.
— The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)

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