![]() Mary doesn't miss her dead parents, and given that they didn't want her it's hard to blame her for this. She's later found in her nursery and shipped off to Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire moors to live with an uncle she's never met. We meet her in India, in the midst of a cholera outbreak that wipes out her British parents and their servants. ![]() Rather she is spoiled, homely, mean and sometimes violent. Mary Lennox is not a good-hearted, put-upon creature, cut from the cloth of Oliver Twist or Cinderella (or Anne Shirley, Pip, Jane Eyre or Heidi). The classic novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, published 100 years ago this summer, takes the traditional children's literature trope of the orphan protagonist and twists it. T here's something strange about The Secret Garden. ![]()
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