Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mary’s parents fall ill and die, forcing her to be transplanted from India to the English countryside. She arrives at a strange and foreign country manor, where she discovers a long-neglected garden and hears strange sobbing noises at night.
Thus begins The Secret Garden, a children’s book with an unusually dense collection of themes, symbols, and motifs. Mary’s personal development mirrors her unraveling the secret of the
...7) Robin
Robin is the sequel to The Head of the House of Coombe, the story of a Marquis who supports a distant relative out of a sense of duty. Robin is the child of this irresponsible, pretty, frivolous woman. Robin is a child in the first book, and she grows up to be a very different woman from her mother. This volume reflects the author's interest in the contemporary Spiritualism movement.