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The Secret Garden, inside the high walls

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Year: 1911 Length: 468 characters Difficulty: easy Public domain

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The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses which were so thick that they were matted together. Mary Lennox knew they were roses because she had seen a great many roses in India. All the ground was covered with grass of a wintry brown and out of it grew clumps of bushes which were surely rosebushes if they were alive. There were numbers of standard roses which had so spread their branches that they were like little trees.

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An oil sketch of a low riverbank with yellow trees, a small house and tall white clouds, Wilson-Steer-98436-copy, Philip Wilson Steer, 1943.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett published The Secret Garden in 1911, after it ran as a serial in an American magazine. She had a walled rose garden of her own at Great Maytham Hall in Kent, and that garden is usually named as the model. She wrote more than fifty books, and this one was not the most popular in her lifetime. Project Gutenberg carries the full text.

About this text

Frances Hodgson Burnett published The Secret Garden in 1911, after it ran as a serial in an American magazine. She had a walled rose garden of her own at Great Maytham Hall in Kent, and that garden is usually named as the model. She wrote more than fifty books, and this one was not the most popular in her lifetime. Project Gutenberg carries the full text.

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