Since its publication in 1911, The Secret GaMen has delighted generations of readers with its timeless appeal. It has been translated into dozens of languages and has been reworked into plays and films. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition and is accompanied by explanatoU annotations.

Frances Hodgson Burnett published more than fifty novels (most for adults, but also Little LorJ Faetlero)') and thirteen plays. She was the highest-paid and most famous woman writer of her time; from the age of eighteen, she never experienced rejection of her work by a publisher. Born and raised in England and transplanted to the United States as a teenager during the waning days of the Civil War, Burnett made her home in both countries today both countries claim her as their own.

Since its publication in 1911, The Secret GaMen has delighted generations of readers with its timeless appeal. It has been translated into dozens of languages and has been reworked into plays and films. The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the first edition and is accompanied by explanatoU annotations.

Frances Hodgson Burnett published more than fifty novels (most for adults, but also Little LorJ Faetlero)') and thirteen plays. She was the highest-paid and most famous woman writer of her time; from the age of eighteen, she never experienced rejection of her work by a publisher. Born and raised in England and transplanted to the United States as a teenager during the waning days of the Civil War, Burnett made her home in both countries today both countries claim her as their own.

"Backgrounds and Contexts" and "Letters" inform readers about various aspects of Burnett's life and work and include her own writings on gardens and their spiritual healing. Four illustrations suggest her prominence in American culture.

"Criticism" includes fourteen contemporary reviews of The Sec~vt GaMen, both British and American, as well as nine recent critical interpretations. Scholarly contributors include Anne Lundin, Phyllis Bixler, Gillian Adams, Christine Wilkie, Shirley Foster and Judy Simons, JerU Phillips, Margaret Mackey and Sally Sims Stokes.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Text of The Secret Garden

　Facsimile of the opening page of The Secret Garden

　The Secret Garden

　ILLUSTRATIONS

Backgrounds and Contexts

　Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina·[The End of an Era]

　Gretchen V. Rector·Digging in the Garden: The Manuscript of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

　Frances Hodgson Burnett·My Robin

　Frances Hodgson Burnett·In the Garden

　LETFERS

　Frances Hodgson Burnett·From A Far, Fair Country BURNE'IT IN THE PRESS

　Anonymous·The1ounger (no date)

　Frances Hodgson Burnett·Mrs. Burnett Protests (1889)

　Anonymous·Mrs. Burnett's Timely Protest (1889)

　Charlotte Harwood·Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett at Home: A Visit to Maytham Hall, Rolvenden, Kent (1902)

　Pendennis·Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett Finds a New Field for Her Pen (1906)

　Anonymous·Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Authoress of "Little1ord Fauntleroy"--Has Something to Say about Children and Children's Books (1907)

　Anonymous·[Untitled] (1907)

　Lonis V. De Foe·A New Thought Mixed with Fantasy Is Served in Guise of Melodrama (1909)

　Frances Hodgson Burnett·Mrs. Burnett Not a Christian Scientist (1909)

　　Magda Frances West·'There Is No Devil,' Asserts Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett ( 1910)

　　Anonymous·Social Sets of Other Cities (1910)

　　Anonymous·Mrs. Burnett and the Occult (1913)

　　Frances Hodgson Burnett·The Magic in Children's Books (1920)

Criticism

　REVIEWS AND MENTIONS OF THE SECRET GARDEN

　　Anonymous·From New York1iterary Notes (1911)

　　Anonymous·WhatWas Hid In a Garden (1911)

　　Anonymous·The New Books (1911)

　　Anonymous·From A Guide to New Books (1911)

　　Anonymous·From The Way of1etters (1911)

　　R. A. Whay·Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden" ( 1911 )

　　Anonymous·The Secret Garden. By Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)

　　Anonymous·From Reviews of New Books. Fifty of the Season's Best Books for Children (1911)

　　Anonymous·One Hundred Christmas Books (1911)

　　Anonymous·From Tile Nation (1911)

　　Anonymous·From American Monthly Magazine (1911)

　　Anonymous·From The Bookman, Christmas 1911

　　Anonymous·From Among the Authors (1912)

　　Ananymous·From The Way of1etters (1912)

　　Anonymous·From Among the Authors (1913)

　MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS OF THE SECRET GARDEN

　　Anne1undin·The Critical and Commercial Reception of The Secret Garden, 19l 1-2004

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Frances Hodson Burnelt:A Chronology

Selected Bibliography