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Author McDowell, Marta, author.

Title Unearthing The secret garden : the plants and places that inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett / Marta McDowell.

Publication Info. Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2021.
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  813.4 MCDOWELL    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  813.4 MCD    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  813.4 MCD    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Whiton Branch - Non Fiction  813.4 MCDOWELL    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  813.4 BURNETT    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  813.4 MCDOWELL    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  813.4 MCDOWELL    Check Shelf
Description 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes index.
Contents Preface -- Before The secret garden. The locked door: England & America (1849-1897) ; Finding the key: Maytham Hall, Kent (1898-1908) -- Inside The secret garden. A gardener's guide to The secret garden: Misselthwaite Manor, Yorkshire -- After The secret garden. Nest building: Plandome Park, New York (1909-1920 ; A new bit of earth: Clifton Heights, Bermuda (1912-1920) ; When the sun went down: Clifton Heights & Plandome Park (1921-1924) -- Outside The secret garden. Further garden writings of Frances Hodgson Burnett ; Frances's plants: an annotated list -- Afterword: Sowing seeds / by Keri Wilt.
Summary McDowell delves into the professional and gardening life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, the writer who dominated the literary world of her time. A lover of flowers and gardens, Burnett's path to literary triumph was a long one. McDowell reminds us why Burnett's 1911 novel, The secret garden, continues to touch readers after more than a century.
Subject Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924. Secret garden.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 -- Knowledge -- Botany.
Gardening in literature.
Plants in literature.
Gardening.
Plants.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924. (OCoLC)fst00049231
Gardening. (OCoLC)fst00937852
Gardening in literature. (OCoLC)fst01903317
Plants. (OCoLC)fst01065823
Plants in literature. (OCoLC)fst01066136
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9781604699906 (hbk.)
1604699906 (hbk.)
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