Marta McDowell divided the book into four sections: before The Secret Garden, inside The Secret Garden, after The Secret Garden, and outside The Secret Garden. ~ From My Robin (1912), describing the rose garden at Maytham Hall. It was my habit to sit and write there under an aged writhen tree gray with lichen and festooned with roses. It was a lovesome, mystic place, shut in partly by old red brick walls against which fruit trees were trained and partly by a laurel hedge with a wood behind it. Her love of gardens and her writing were deeply intertwined. The photo on the right is of her writing desk, and I love to see photos of the desks and spaces that writers use to create their wonderful works! I thought the photo was like a lovely impressionistic painting and had to look closely to see her.
The one on the left shows her sitting in her garden at Maytham Hall. Two of the photos that I thought were quite lovely are below. The book was also filled with wonderful photos and illustrations. What an interesting character was FHB! She was not at all what I expected, but I enjoyed getting to know so much about her personality and her life. She was also an avid gardener, and created three special gardens over her lifetime - one in England, one in the United States, and one in Bermuda. This book goes into great detail about each of those gardens and about the life of FHB herself. She wrote The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, two of my all time favorite books. My sister-in-law recently sent me a lovely gift - a copy of Marta McDowell’s new book, Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants and Places that Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett.įrances Hodgson Burnett is one of my favorite authors. If you love gardens and are interested in the lives of authors, Marta McDowell writes books for you to love.
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