He lives on the Yorkshire Moors in a large English country house, Misselthwaite Manor. She is soon sent to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, whom her father's sister Lilias married.
She is discovered by British soldiers who place her in the temporary care of an English clergyman, whose children taunt her by calling her " Mistress Mary, quite contrary". After a cholera epidemic kills Mary's parents, the few surviving servants flee the house without Mary. She is cared for primarily by native servants, who allow her to become spoilt, demanding and self-centred. Graham Rust’s illustrations, with their delicate period flavor and detail, bring to life the whole cast of characters and, of course, the secret garden itself – “the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place anyone could imagine.At the turn of the 20th century, Mary Lennox is a neglected and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in British India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her and made an effort to ignore her. The characters and the story are as fresh today as they were when the book was first published.
The robin helps Mary find the door to the secret garden, and from there the story takes the reader on a spellbinding journey into the places of the heart where faith restores health, where flowers refresh the spirit, and where the magic of a garden coming to life after years of neglect serves as a metaphor for the miraculous recovery of a bed-ridden boy. Implanted in Misselthwaite Manor on the baleful moors of Yorkshire, she meets a hearty housekeeper and her spirited brother, a dear gardener, a cheerful robin, and Master Colin, her willful, mysterious, sickly cousin. In what is certainly the most beautiful full color edition of this acknowledged children’s classic, Mary Lennox, a sullen, spoiled child, comes to live with her English uncle after her parents’ deaths. The Secret Garden has been cherished by generations of readers since its first appearance in 1911.
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