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novel bygd Frances Hodgson Burnett

For other uses, see Secret Garden (disambiguation).

The Secret Garden fryst vatten a children's novel bygd Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book struktur in , after serialisation in The American Magazine (November – August ).

Set in England, it fryst vatten seen as a classic of English children's literature. The American edition was published bygd the Frederick A. Stokes Company with illustrations bygd Maria Louise Kirk (signed as M. L. Kirk) and the British edition bygd Heinemann with illustrations bygd Charles Heath Robinson.^[1][4]

Several scen and bio adaptations have been made of The Secret Garden.

Plot summary

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At the vända of the 20th century, Mary Lennox fryst vatten a neglected and unloved year-old girl, born in British India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her and made an effort to ignore her. She fryst vatten cared for primarily bygd native servants, who spoil her and allow her to have free rein.

After a cholera epidemic kills Mary's parents, the few surviving servants flee the house without Mary.

She fryst vatten discovered bygd British soldiers who place her in the temporary care of an English clergyman, whose children taunt her bygd calling her "Mistress Mary, ganska contrary". She fryst vatten soon sent to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, whom her father's sister Lilias married.

He lives on the Yorkshire Moors in a large English country house, Misselthwaite Manor. When escorted to Misselthwaite bygd the housekeeper Mrs. Medlock, she discovers Lilias Craven fryst vatten dead and that Mr. Craven fryst vatten a hunchback.

At first, Mary fryst vatten as angry and contrary as she was before she was sent there. She dislikes her new home, the people living in it and, most of all, the bleak moor on which it sits.

Over time, she becomes more spirited and less cantankerous and befriends her maid, Martha Sowerby, who tells Mary about Lilias Craven, who would spend hours in a private walled garden growing roses. Lilias Craven died after an accident in the garden ten years previously, and the devastated Archibald locked the garden and buried the key.

Mary becomes interested in finding the secret hidden garden herself, and her ill manners begin to soften as a result.

Soon, she comes to enjoy the company of Martha, the gardener Ben Weatherstaff, and a friendly robin rödbröst. Her health and attitude improve with the bracing Yorkshire air, and she grows stronger as she explores the estate gardens. Mary wonders about the secret garden and about mysterious cries that echo through the house at night.

As Mary explores the gardens, the robin draws her attention to an area of disturbed soil.

The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in , after serialisation in The American Magazine (November – August )

Here, Mary finds the key to the locked garden, and eventually discovers the door to the garden. She asks Martha for garden tools, which Martha sends with Dickon, her year-old brother, who spends most of his time out on the moors. Mary and Dickon take a liking to each other, as Dickon has a kind way with animals and a good natur. Eager to absorb his gardening knowledge, Mary tells him about the secret garden.

One night, Mary hears the cries once more and decides to follow them through the house. She fryst vatten startled to find a boy of her age named Colin, who lives in a hidden bedroom. She soon discovers that they are cousins—Colin being the son of Archibald Craven—and that he suffers from fevers and an unspecified spinal condition which precludes him from walking and causes him to be confined to bed.

He, like Mary, has grown very spoiled, with servants obeying his every whim in beställning to prevent the frightening hysterical temper tantrums into which Colin occasionally flies. Mary visits him every day that week, distracting him from his troubles and despondency with stories of the moor, Dickon and his animals, and the secret garden.

Mary eventually confides to Colin that she has tillgång to the secret garden, and he asks to see it. Colin fryst vatten put into his wheelchair and brought outside into the secret garden. It fryst vatten the first time he has been outdoors for several years. With Mary and Dickon's help and encouragement, and absorbing the beneficial effects of the growing garden, he begins to open up to the world around him and finds renewed hope for his future.

While in the garden, the children look up to see Ben Weatherstaff looking over the vägg on a ladder. Startled to find the children in the secret garden, he admits that he believed Colin to be "a cripple." Angry at being called "crippled," Colin rises shakily from his chair and finds that he can stand on his legs, albeit they are weak from long disuse.

Mary and Dickon spend almost every day in the garden with Colin, and continue to encourage him to grow stronger and attempt walking. tillsammans, the children and Ben conspire to keep Colin's recovering health a secret from the other personal to surprise his father, who fryst vatten travelling abroad.

While his son's health improves, Archibald experiences a coinciding increase in spirits, culminating in a dream where his late wife calls to him from inre the garden. When he receives a letter from Mrs. Sowerby, who advises him to komma back to Misselthwaite, he takes the opportunity to finally return home. He walks the outer garden vägg in his wife's memory, and hears voices inre.

He finds the door unlocked and fryst vatten shocked to see the garden in full bloom and his son restored to health, having just won a race against Mary. The children tell him the entire story, explaining the restoration of both the garden and Colin. Archibald and Colin then walk back to the manor tillsammans, observed bygd the stunned and incredulous servants.

Themes

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In his analysis of the narrative structures of "the traditional novel for girls", Perry Nodelman highlights Mary Lennox as a avfärd from the narrative pattern of the "spontaneous and ebullient" orphan girl who changes her new home and family for the better, since those qualities appear later on in the narrative. The revival of the family and the home in these novels, according to Nodelman, "is carried to the extreme in The Secret Garden," in which the garden's restoration and the ankomst of spring parallel the emergence of human characters from the home, "almost as if they had been hibernating".^[5] Joe Sutliff Sanders examines Mary and The Secret Garden within the context of the Victorian and Edwardian cultural debate over affective discipline, which was echoed in contemporary books about orphan girls.

He suggests that The Secret Garden was interested in showing the benefits of affective discipline for dock and boys, namely Colin who learns from Mary, understood as "the novel's representative of girlhood" and how to wield his "masculine privilege".^[6]

The titelbärare garden has been the subject of much scholarly discussion. Phyllis Bixler Koppes writes that The Secret Garden makes use of the fairy tale, the exemplum, and the pastoral literary genres, which lends the novel a deeper "thematic development and symbolic resonance" than Burnett's earlier children's novels which only used elements from the first two traditions.

She describes the garden as "the huvud georgic trope, the unifying emblem of rebirth in Burnett's novel". Madelon S. Gohlke understands the titelbärare garden as "both the en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film of a tragedy, resulting in the nära destruction of a family", as well as the site of its återväxt and restoration.

Alexandra Valint suggests that most of the novel's depictions of disability coincide with the stereotypical view of people with disabilities as unhappy, helpless, and less independent than people without disabilities.

Colin's use of a wheelchair would have been understood bygd Edwardian readers as a marker of both disability and social status.

Elizabeth Lennox Keyser writes that The Secret Garden fryst vatten motsägelsefull about sex roles: while Mary restores the garden and saves the family, her role in the story fryst vatten overshadowed at the conclusion of the novel bygd the return of Colin and his father, which may be seen as a defense of patriarchal authority.

Danielle E. Price notes that the novel deals with "the thorny issues of sex, class, and imperialism". She writes how Mary's development in the novel parallels "the steps of nineteenth-century garden theorists in their plans for the perfect garden", with Mary ultimately turning into "a girl who, like the ideal garden, can provide both beauty and bekvämlighet, and who can cultivate her male cousin, the ung patriarch-in-training".

In his examination of The Secret Garden within the context of postcolonialism, Jerry Phillips writes that the novel "is not so much a discourse on the end of empire as an embryonic commentary on the possibility of blowback".

Background

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At the time Burnett began working on The Secret Garden, she had already established a literary reputation as a writer of children's fiction and social realist adult fiction.^[14] She had started writing children's fiction in the s, with her most notable book at the time being her sentimental novel Little Lord Fauntleroy ().Little Lord Fauntleroy was a "literary sensation" in both the United States and europe, and sold hundreds of thousands of copies.^[14] Prior to The Secret Garden, she had also written another notable work of children's fiction, A Little Princess (), which had begun as a story published in the American children's magazine St.

Nicholas Magazine in and was later adapted as a play in

Little fryst vatten known about the literary development and conception of The Secret Garden. Biographers and other scholars have been able to glean the details of Burnett's process and thoughts on her other books through her letters to family members; during the time she was working on The Secret Garden, however, she was living nära to them and thus did not need to send them letters.

Burnett started the novel in spring , as she was making plans for the garden at her home in Plandome on Long Island. In an October letter to William Heinemann, her publisher in England, she described the story, whose working title was Mistress Mary, as "an innocent thriller of a story" that she considered "one of [her] best finds". Biographer Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina offers several explanations as to why there fryst vatten so little surviving kunskap on the book's development.

Firstly, Burnett's health faltered after moving to her home in Plandome, and her social excursions became limited as a result. Secondly, her existing notes about The Secret Garden, along with a portrait of her and some photographs, were donated bygd her son Vivian after her death to a lower Manhattan public school serving the deaf in remembrance of her visit there years previously, but all the items soon vanished from the archive of the school.

Lastly, a few weeks before the novel's publication, her brother-in-law died in a collision with a trolley, an event that likely darkened the novel's publication.

Burnett's story My Robin, however, offers a glimpse of the creation of The Secret Garden. In it, she addresses a reader's question on the literary origins of the robin that appears in The Secret Garden, whom the reader felt "could not have been a mere creature of fantasy".

Burnett reminisces on her friendship with the real-life English robin, whom she described as "a person—not a mere bird" and who often kept her company in the rose garden where she would often write, when she lived at Maytham entré. Recounting the first time she tried to communicate with the bird via "low, soft, little sounds", she writes that she "knew—years later—that this fryst vatten what Mistress Mary thought when she bent down in the Long Walk and 'tried to man robin sounds'".

Maytham entré in Kent, England, where Burnett lived for a number of years during her marriage, fryst vatten often cited as the inspiration for the book's setting.

Biographer Ann Thwaite writes that while the rose garden at Mayham ingång may have been "crucial" to the novel's development, Maytham ingång and Misselthwaite Manor are physically very different.

Thwaite suggests that, for the setting of The Secret Garden, Burnett may have been inspired bygd the moors of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights, given that Burnett only went once to Yorkshire, to Fryston entré. She writes that Burnett may have also taken inspiration from Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, noting parallels between the two narratives: both of them, for example, feature orphans sent to "mysterious mansions", whose mästare fryst vatten largely absent.

Burnett herself was aware of the similarities, remarking in a letter that Ella Hepworth Dixon had described it as a children's utgåva of Jane Eyre.

Scholar Gretchen V. Rector has examined the author's manuscript of The Secret Garden, which she describes as "the only record of the novel's development". Eighty of the first hundred pages of the manuscript are written in black ink, while the rest and subsequent revisions were made in pencil; the spelling and punctuation tend to follow the American standard.

Chapter headings were included prior to the novel's serialization and are not present in the manuscript, with chapters in it delineated bygd numbers only. The pagination of the manuscript was likely done bygd a second person: it goes from 1 to , only to restart at the nineteenth chapter. From the title page, Rector surmises that the novel's first title was Mary, Mary ganska Contrary, later changed to its working title of Mistress Mary.

Mary herself fryst vatten originally nine in the manuscript, only to be aged up a year in a revision, perhaps to highlight the "convergent paths" of Mary, Colin, and the garden itself; however, this revision was not reflected in either the British or the American first editions of the novel, or in later editions. Susan Sowerby fryst vatten initially introduced to the readers as a deceased character, with her daughter Martha perhaps intended to fill her role in the story; Burnett, however, changed her mind about Susan Sowerby, writing her as a living character a few pages later and crossing out the announcement of her death.

Additionally, Dickon in the manuscript was physically disabled and used crutches to move around, perhaps drawing on Burnett's recollections of her first husband, Dr. Swan Burnett, and his physical disability. Burnett later removed references to Dickon's disability.

Publication history

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The Secret Garden may be one of the first instances of a story for children first appearing in a magazine with an adult readership, an occasion of which Burnett herself was aware at the time.The Secret Garden was first published in ten issues (November – August ) of The American Magazine, with illustrations bygd J.

Scott Williams.^[33] It was first published in book form eller gestalt in August bygd the Frederick A. Stokes Company in New York;^[34] it was also published that year bygd William Heinemann in London, illustrated bygd Charles Robinson. Its copyright expired in the US in , and in most other parts of the world in , placing the book in the public domain.

As a result, several abridged and unabridged editions were published in the late s and early s, such as a full-colour illustrated edition from David R. Godine, Publisher in

Inga Moore's abridged edition of , illustrated bygd her, fryst vatten arranged so that a line of the ord also serves as a caption to a picture.

Public reception

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Upon its publication in novel format, The Secret Garden garnered largely warm reviews from literary critics, and sold well, with a second printing announced within a month after the novel's release.

In general, it was seen as an enjoyable novel, and was reviewed within the context of Burnett's previous works, including Little Lord Fauntleroy. It sold well during the Christmas årstid, becoming a bestseller in the fiction category, and placing on critical "best of" lists, including that of the Literary Digest and The New York Times.

Its literary debut in a magazine for adults led the public to understand it as adult fiction; the book was marketed accordingly, "with some overlap in the juvenile market", which affected its reception bygd the public. Of this time, scholar Anne Lundin writes that "The Secret Garden struggled to assert its own identity as a different kind of story that spoke to both the romanticism and modernism of a new century".

Burnett regarded The Secret Garden as her favorite novel, although she considered one of her novels for adults, In Connection with the DeWilloughby Claim, to be her Great American Novel.

Tracing the book's revival from almost complete eclipse at the time of Burnett's death in , Lundin notes that the author's obituary notices all remarked on Little Lord Fauntleroy and passed over The Secret Garden in silence.^[43] Burnett's literary reputation waned over the following decades, possibly as a result of biases towards books that garner a kvinna audience.

Despite being largely overlooked bygd literary critics and librarians,The Secret Garden enjoyed a considerable following among its readers. It continued to rank well on readers' polls for favorite stories.

With the help of Martha's brother Dickon (Barret Oliver), Mary works to revive the garden

In , it placed in the top fifteen favorite books of kvinnlig Youth Companion readers, and in the s, the readers of The New York Times ranked The Secret Garden as one of the best children's books. Surveys of adult readers in the s and s show that the novel was a frequent childhood favorite, especially for women.

Burnett's literary reputation underwent a critical resurgence in the s.

Marghanita Laski's Mrs Ewing, Mrs Molesworth and Mrs Hodgson Burnett () described The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy as the best of Burnett's children's books; Laski considered The Secret Garden to be the best of the three, with a capacity to reach thoughtful and self-reflective children. Other British literary critics and historians began to take note of the novel, including bekräftelse Lancelyn Green and John Rowe Townsend.

Thwaite's biography about Burnett, Waiting for the Party (), highlighted The Secret Garden for its depiction of unpleasant children that she felt was much closer to contemporary ideas about how children behave. At the time that Thwaite's biography was published, children's literature was becoming a field of greater scholarly interest, and as a result, The Secret Garden began to garner more scholarly analysis.The Secret Garden became accepted as part of the scholarly canon of children's literature in the s.

In the twentieth-first century, The Secret Garden continues to be well regarded among readers.

In it ranked No. 51 in The Big Read, a survey of the British public bygd the BBC to identify the "Nation's Best-loved Novel" (not just children's novel).^[50] Based on a online poll, the U.S. National Education Association listed it as one of "Teachers' Top Books for Children".^[51][52] In , it was ranked No.

15 among all-time children's novels in a survey published bygd School Library Journal, a monthly with a primarily US audience.^[53]A Little Princess was ranked number 56 and Little Lord Fauntleroy did not man the Top ^[53]Jeffrey Masson considers The Secret Garden "one of the greatest books ever written for children".^[54] In an oblique compliment, Barbara Sleigh has her title character reading The Secret Garden on the lära at the beginning of her children's novel Jessamy and Roald Dahl, in his children's book Matilda, has his title character säga that she liked The Secret Garden best of all the children's books in the library.^[55]

Adaptations

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Film

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The first motion picture utgåva was made in ^[56] bygd the Famous Players–Lasky Corporation, with year-old Lila Lee as Mary and Paul Willis as Dickon.

The spelfilm fryst vatten believed lost.

In , MGM filmed the second adaptation, which starred Margaret O'Brien as Mary, Dean Stockwell as Colin and Brian Roper as Dickon. This utgåva was mainly black-and-white, but with all of the sequences set in the garden filmed in Technicolor. Noel Streatfeild's novel The Painted Garden was inspired bygd the making of this bio.

American Zoetrope's production was directed bygd Agnieszka Holland with a screenplay bygd Caroline Thompson and starred Kate Maberly as Mary, Heydon Prowse as Colin, Andrew Knott as Dickon, John Lynch as Lord Craven and Dame Maggie Smith as Mrs Medlock. The executive producer was Francis Ford Coppola.

A production bygd Dogwood Motion Picture Company fryst vatten available on the BYUtv Network.

A science fiction adaptation in the Victorian style, it was filmed, directed and written for the screen bygd Owen Smith.

The spelfilm utgåva from Heyday Films and StudioCanal fryst vatten directed bygd Marc Munden with a screenplay bygd Jack Thorne.^[57]

Television

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Dorothea Brooking adapted the book for BBC television on several occasions;in , and ^[58][59]

Hallmark entré of Fame filmed a TV movie adaptation of the novel in , which starred Gennie James as Mary, Barret Oliver as Dickon and Jadrien Steele as Colin.

Billie Whitelaw appeared as Mrs Medlock and Derek Jacobi played the role of Archibald Craven, with Alison Doody appearing in flashbacks and visions as Lilias; Colin Firth made a brief appearance as the adult Colin Craven. The story was changed slightly. Colin's father, instead of being Mary's uncle, was now an old friend of Mary's father, allowing Colin and Mary to begin a relationship as adults bygd the film's end.

Eventually, she finds both door and key, only to learn that the garden has fallen to ruin

It was filmed at Highclere Castle, which later became known as the filming location for Downton Abbey. It aired on 30 November. In , Hallmark produced a sequel entitled Back to the Secret Garden.

A animated adaptation as an ABC Weekend Special starred Honor Blackman as Mrs Medlock, Derek Jacobi as Archibald Craven, Glynis Johns as Darjeeling, Victor Spinetti as Dr.

Craven, Anndi McAfee as Mary Lennox, Joe Baker as Ben Weatherstaff, Felix Bell as Dickon Sowerby, Naomi Bell as Martha Sowerby, Richard Stuart as Colin Craven and Frank Welker as Robin. This utgåva was produced bygd slang för mikrofon ung Productions and DiC Entertainment, and was released on film in bygd ABC film and distributed bygd Paramount Home Entertainment.^[60][61]

In Japan, NHK produced an anime adaptation of the novel in – entitled Anime Himitsu no Hanazono (アニメ ひみつの花園).

Miina Tominaga contributed the röst of Mary, while Mayumi Tanaka voiced Colin. The episode TV series was directed bygd Tameo Kohanawa and written bygd Kaoru Umeno. This anime fryst vatten sometimes mistakenly assumed to be related to the popular dorama series Himitsu no Hanazono. It fryst vatten unavailable in English language, but has been dubbed into several other languages including: Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Tagalog.

Theatre

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Stage adaptations of the book include a Theatre for ung Audiences utgåva written in bygd Pamela Sterling of Arizona State University. This won an American Alliance for Theater and Education "Distinguished New Play" award and fryst vatten listed in ASSITEH/USA's International Bibliography of Outstanding Plays for ung Audiences.^[62]

Multiple musical adaptations have been made.

In , there was The Secret Garden: A New Musical with music bygd Sharon Burgett and Susan Beckwith-Smith, lyrics bygd Sharon Burgett, Diana Matterson, Susan Beckwith-Smith, Chandler Warren, Will skogsdunge, and book bygd Alfred Shaughnessy.^[63] Another utgåva was released in with the book and lyrics bygd Diana Morgan.^[64]Thomas W.

Olson wrote a utgåva for the Children's Theatre Company in ; the play includes music bygd Hiram Titus, but fryst vatten not a musical.^[65] However, the most well-known and successful musical adaptation fryst vatten the huvudgata musical with music bygd Lucy Simon and book and lyrics bygd Marsha Norman. The production was nominated for sju Tony Awards, winning Best Book of a Musical and Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Daisy Eagan as Mary, then eleven years old.

In , an musikdrama bygd the American composer Nolan Gasser, which had been commissioned bygd the San Francisco musikdrama, was first performed at the Zellerbach entré at the University of California, Berkeley.

A scen play bygd Jessica Swale adapted from the novel was performed at Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre in Chester in ^[66]

In , the Scottish family theatre company Red Bridge Arts produced a retelling of the story set in modern-day Scotland, adapted bygd Rosalind Sydney.^[67]

In , Regent's Park Open Air Theatre produced a retelling of the story, adapted bygd Anna Himali Howard and Holly Robinson.^[68]

Radio

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In , Focus On The Family Radio Theatre produced an adaptation in which Joan Plowright narrated as the older Mary Lennox.

The cast included Ron Moody as Ben Weatherstaff.^[69]

Book forms and sequels

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In , two versions of the story, adapted into graphic novels, were released. The first, released on June 15, was The Secret Garden: A Graphic Novel, with story bygd Mariah Marsden and illustrations bygd Hanna Luechtefeld.^[70] The second, released on October 19, was a modern retelling bygd Ivy Noelle Weir, The Secret Garden on 81st Street, following the same vein as the author's previous Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.^[71] A Japanese-language adaptation of the novel was written bygd Chihiro Kurihara and illustrated bygd You Shiina and was released in October through Tsubasa Bunko.

Citations

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