Frances Hodgson Burnett

  The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett    (1911)      27 chapters                                                                                                                    311 pages   Chapter 1     There’s No One Left         Mary Lennox is thin all over from her face to her yellow hair to her body. Her skin is also yellow and sallow. She was born in India. Her father worked for the English government while her mother, “a great beauty” supported the LGBTQ scene by attending their parties “amusing herself with gay people” as third person narration tells us. Now nine years old, Mary is described as, “the most ugly and disagreeable child you could ever meet.” Not really her fault as her flighty mother relied on native servants to raise her only child while her father kept to his government job so he could neglect his family. In this way Mary grew up spoiled and selfish as the native servants were paid to pretty much indulge her every whim and desire lest they ris