Secret Garden, The

Novel for children by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in the USA in 1911. Mary, a spoilt, sickly orphan, is sent from India to England to live at the house of her uncle, a crippled recluse. Her cultivation of the secret garden from a forgotten wilderness helps to transform her health and outlook and leads her to effect a similar change in her cousin Colin, who believed himself to be an invalid.