Preface
Acknowledgments
The Text of The Secret Garden 1
Facsimile of the opening page of The Secret Garden 2
The Secret Garden 3
Illustrations 174
First episode of The Secret Garden (October 1910) 174
Frances Hodgson Burnett (December 17, 1881) 175
Frances Hodgson Burnett (Caricature) (1906?) 176
Backgrounds and Contexts
[The End of an Era] 179
Digging in the Garden: The Manuscript of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 186
My Robin 199
In the Garden 209
Letters 215
Vivian Burnett to Frances Hodgson Burnett (April 10, 1911) 215
Frances Hodgson Burnett to Vivian Burnett (April 16, 1911) 216
Frances Hodgson Burnett to Vivian Burnett (April 20, 1910) 217
Frances Hodgson Burnett to Vivian Burnett (April 1911) 217
Frances Hodgson Burnett to Elizabeth Jordan (no date) 219
From A Far, Fair Country 219
Burnett in the Press
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1881) 222
Authors at Work-III (1889) 226
The Boston Mind Cure (1885) 227
The Lounger (no date) 228
Mrs. Burnett Protests (1889) 229
Mrs. Burnett's Timely Protest (1889) 234
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett at Home: A Visit to Maytham Hall, Rolvenden, Kent (1902) 235
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett Finds a New Field for Her Pen (1906) 238
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Authoress of "Little Lord Fauntleroy"-Has Something to Say about Children and Children's Books (1907) 242
[Untitled] (1907) 246
A New Thought Mixed with Fantasy Is Served in Guise of Melodrama (1909) 246
Mrs. Burnett Not a Christian Scientist (1909) 249
'There Is No Devil,' Asserts Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett (1910) 250
Social Sets of Other Cities (1910) 252
Mrs. Burnett and the Occult (1913) 255
The Magic in Children's Books (1920) 259
Criticism
Reviews and Mentions of the Secret Garden
From New York Literary Notes (1911) 265
What Was Hid In a Garden (1911) 265
The New Books (1911) 267
From A Guide to New Books (1911) 268
From The Way of Letters (1911) 269
Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden" (1911) 269
The Secret Garden. By Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911) 270
From Reviews of New Books. Fifty of the Season's Best Books for Children (1911) 271
One Hundred Christmas Books (1911) 271
From The Nation (1911) 272
From American Monthly Magazine (1911) 272
From The Bookman, Christmas 1911 273
From Among the Authors (1912) 274
From The Way of Letters (1912) 274
From Among the Authors (1913) 275
Modern Critical Views of the Secret Garden
The Critical and Commercial Reception of The Secret Garden, 1911-2004 277
Gardens, Houses, and Nurturant Power in The Secret Garden 287
Secrets and Healing Magic in "The Secret Garden" 302
Digging Up The Secret Garden: Noble Innocents or Little Savages? 314
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden 324
The Mem Sahib, the Worthy, the Rajah and His Minions: Some Reflections of the Class Politics of The Secret Garden 342
Influenced by the Secret Garden
Strip Mines in the Garden: Old Stories, New Formats, and the Challenge of Change 367
Noel Streatfeild's Secret Gardens 387
The Secret Garden "Misread": The Broadway Musical as Creative Interpretation 422
Frances Hodgson Burnett: A Chronology 443
Selected Bibliography 453