The Secret Garden and the healing power of nature
- Written by Emma Hayes, Academic, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University
StudioCanalFrances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden has been described as “the most significant children’s book of the 20th century.”
First published in 1911, after being serialised in The American Magazine, it was dismissed by one critic at the time as simple and lacking “plenty of excitement”. The novel...





