The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett · 1911 CE · Novel · English · Victorian

Orphaned by cholera in India, sour and unwanted, Mary Lennox is shipped to an uncle's shut-up house on the Yorkshire moors, where a hundred rooms are locked and somebody cries at night. A robin shows her the door to a walled garden sealed for ten years, and she begins clearing it in secret with a moor boy who charms animals. Burnett's late work has long outlasted the adult bestsellers that made her name.

Open The Secret Garden in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.

Attributes

Closest analogues

• The Cement Garden
  Ian McEwan · 1978 CE · Novel

  48% · 11 shared
  NovelComing-of-AgeGothicIsolation & AlienationInnocentCaregiverThe GardenThe Housevs SelfGothicEnglish
• The Mysteries of Udolpho
  Ann Radcliffe · 1794 CE · Novel

  43% · 10 shared
  NovelGothicIsolation & AlienationHeroineInnocentMysteryThe Housevs SelfGothicEnglish
• Tom's Midnight Garden
  Philippa Pearce · 1958 CE · Novel

  40% · 9 shared
  NovelComing-of-AgeIsolation & AlienationInnocentMysteryThe GardenThe Housevs SelfEnglish
• The Orchard Keeper
  Cormac McCarthy · 1965 CE · Novel

  40% · 9 shared
  NovelComing-of-AgeGothicIsolation & AlienationNature vs CivilizationInnocentvs NaturePastoralGothic
• Little House in the Big Woods
  Laura Ingalls Wilder · 1932 CE · Novel

  40% · 9 shared
  NovelComing-of-AgeNature vs CivilizationInnocentCaregiverThe HouseThe Seasonsvs NaturePastoral
• The Miracle Worker
  Arthur Penn · 1962 CE · Film

  40% · 7 shared
  TransformationIsolation & AlienationInnocentCaregiverRebirthThe Housevs Self