Roderick McGillis, ‘“Secrets” and “Sequence” in Children’s Stories”’, Studies in the Literary Imagination, 1985, Fall, vol. All subsequent references are to this edition and are included in the text.
6, p.248.įrances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), p.10. Rowe, ‘Feminism and Fairy Tales’, Women’ s Studies, 1979, vol. Jean Radford, The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction (London: Routledge, 1986). Rosalind Miles, The Female Form: Women Writers and the Conquest of the Novel (London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987) See, for example, Laurie Langbauer, Women and Romance: the Consolations of Gender in the English Novel (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990) Jacqueline Rose, The Case of Peter Pan or The Impossibility of Children’ s Literature (London: Macmillan, 1984), p.84. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.įroebel, System of Infant Gardens (1855), quoted in Juliet Dusinberre, Alice to the Lighthouse: Children’ s Books and Radical Experiments in Art (London: Macmillan, 1987). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. In its focus on processes of socialization the story of The Secret Garden follows a regenerative path, with pervasive images of death and debility transformed to those of life and energy.
Unlike earlier texts, however, the moral emphases are subordinated to a more searching psychological dimension.
Like The Wide, Wide World and Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden focuses on the experience of juvenile isolation and alienation and follows the adaptation of a young girl to a new and initially disturbing environment. The fantasies of female power which the novel projects so powerfully remain, however, tantalizingly unresolved as the tensions in the text between authority, gender and social class gradually become more pronounced, and the achievements of the heroine correspondingly marginalized. Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden (1911) takes up the subjects of orphanhood, illness and the autonomous world of childhood, which characterize a number of fictions for girls in the late Victorian period.
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