Unearthing The Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Marta McDowell returns with a beautiful, gift\-worthy account of how plants and gardening deepy inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of the beloved children\x27s classic The Secret Garden. Marta McDowell has revealed the many ways gardening has inspired some of our most cherished authors, including Beatrix Potter, Emily Dickinson, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. In her latest, she does the same with Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author of the classic children\x27s book The Secret Garden. Unearthing The Secret Garden starts by chronicling Frances Hodgson Burnett\x27s childhood and early life, with a focus on her growing interest in gardens and her development as a writer. McDowell also shares details of three gardens Hodgson Burnett created in Kent, Long Island, and Bermuda. A guide to the plants featured in The Secret Garden will delight gardeners. And in a unique addition, McDowell transcribes Hodgson Burnett\x27s delightful essay, \x26#34;In the Garden,\x26#34; which was published shortly after her death. AUTHOR: Marta McDowell lives, gardens, and writes in Chatham, New Jersey. She consults for public gardens and private clients, writes and lectures on gardening topics, and teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, where she studied landscape design. Her particular interest is in authors and their gardens, the connection between the pen and the trowel. 150 photographs and illustrations Cover Title Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents Preface Part One: Before the Secret Garden One: The Locked Door Two: Finding the Key Spring at Maytham Summer at Maytham Autumn at Maytham Part Two: Inside the Secret Garden Three: A Gardener’s Guide to the Secret Garden Spring at Misselthwaite Summer at Misselthwaite Autumn at Misselthwaite Part Three: After the Secret Garden Four: Nest Building Five: A New Bit of Earth Six: When the Sun Went Down Part Four: Outside the Secret Garden Seven: Further Garden Writings of Frances Hodgson Burnett Frances Has the Last Laugh: An American Author’s English Ha-Ha (1906) Connecting with Nature: My Robin (1912) Gardening for Everybody: In the Garden (1924) Eight: Frances’s Plants Afterword: Sowing Seeds Sources & Citations Acknowledgments Photo & Illustration Credits Index