By Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jill Muller
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But it is only in the enchanted space of the garden that Colin and Mary can meet with Dickon in full equality, and even there, through references to the invalid boy as a king or rajah, we are subtly reminded of Colin舗s future position as the owner of Misselthwaite Manor and Dickon舗s employer. As the novel progresses, it is Colin who increasingly becomes the main focus of both Mary舗s and the narrator舗s attention. A true product of the industrial age, Colin goes beyond Dickon舗s simple acceptance of the magical healing power of nature, thinking instead of ways to harness and employ it: 舠I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us舒like electricity and horses and steam舡 (p.
While Burnett employs some tried-and-tested successful elements from her earlier fiction, such as the use of regional dialect and a Gothic setting, she also shows a new willingness to explore painful emotions and to present child heroes whose behavior is often unlovable. For once her relentless drive to 舠write some happiness into the world舡 does not inhibit her from creating convincing characters or compel her to resolve all the tensions in her narrative. The greater psychological realism of The Secret Garden may stem from Burnett舗s personal suffering in the years following Little Lord Fauntleroy.
The family lived in a log cabin and were supported by the earnings of Burnett舗s two brothers, who went to work for their uncle. Having long entertained her sisters and schoolmates with the improbable adventures of a red-headed heroine, Edith Somerville, Frances decided to try her hand at writing for a living. Raising money for paper and stamps by gathering and selling wild grapes, she wrote her first stories, romances set in aristocratic English parlors, and sold two pieces to the magazine Godey舗s Lady舗s Book in June 1868.