A Hundred Years of The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett's Children's Classic Revisited

Edited by Marion Gymnich Edited by Imke Lichterfeld Series edited by Uwe Baumann Series edited by Marion Gymnich Series edited by Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp Consultant editor Michael Hoch Consultant editor Thomas Becker

Book cover: A Hundred Years of The Secret Garden

Extent: 189 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Literary Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(November 2012)

ISBN: 9783847100546

6.42 x 9.65 inches

Price: $94.00

Out of stock

Although Frances Hodgson Burnett published numerous works for an adult readership, she is mainly remembered today for three novels written for children: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911). This volume is dedicated to The Secret Garden. The articles address a wide range of issues, including the representation of the garden in Burnett’s novel in the context of cultural history; the relationship between the concept of nature and female identity; the idea of therapeutic places; the notion of redemptive children in The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy; the concept of male identity; constructions of ‘Otherness’ and the redefinition of Englishness; film and anime versions of Burnett’s classic; Noel Streatfeild’s The Painted Garden as a rewriting of The Secret Garden; attitudes towards food in children’s classics and Burnett’s novel in the context of Edwardian girlhood fiction and the tradition of the female novel of development.


Although Frances Hodgson Burnett published numerous works for an adult readership, she is mainly remembered today for three novels written for children: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911). This volume is dedicated to The Secret Garden. The articles address a wide range of issues, including the representation of the garden in Burnett’s novel in the context of cultural history; the relationship between the concept of nature and female identity; the idea of therapeutic places; the notion of redemptive children in The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy; the concept of male identity; constructions of ‘Otherness’ and the redefinition of Englishness; film and anime versions of Burnett’s classic; Noel Streatfeild’s The Painted Garden as a rewriting of The Secret Garden; attitudes towards food in children’s classics and Burnett’s novel in the context of Edwardian girlhood fiction and the tradition of the female novel of development.

  • Edited by Marion Gymnich
  • Edited by Imke Lichterfeld
  • Series edited by Uwe Baumann
  • Series edited by Marion Gymnich
  • Series edited by Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp
  • Consultant editor Michael Hoch
  • Consultant editor Thomas Becker