Frances Hodgson Burnett published numerous works for an adult readership, but she is mainly remembered today for three novels written for children: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911). This volume is dedicated to The Secret Garden. The articles address a wide range of issues, including the representation of the garden in Burnett''s novel in the context of cultural history; the relationship between the concept of nature and female identity; the idea of therapeutic places; the notion of redemptive children in The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy; the concept of male identity; constructions of ''Otherness'' and the redefinition of Englishness; film and anime versions of Burnett''s classic; Noel Streatfeild''s The Painted Garden as a rewriting of The Secret Garden; attitudes towards food in children''s classics and Burnett''s novel in the context of Edwardian girlhood fiction and the tradition of the female novel of development.
