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Frontispiece by Maria L. Kirk for "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. NY: Frederick A. Stokes, (1911). 1st American ed.

"It seemed scarcely bearable to leave such delightfulness."

 

Burnett’s story of a sickly and unloved 10-year-old orphan who finds joy and happiness in her secret garden is a classic of English children’s literature and one of Burnett’s best-known works.

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