![]() How did tha’ like th’ seeds an’ th’ garden tools?” “But I knowed it would be that way when tha’ saw him. “It’d look rare an’ funny in thy bit of a face,” she said. “I love his big mouth,” said Mary obstinately. But he has got a big mouth, hasn’t he, now?” “Mother says he made ‘em that color with always lookin’ up at th’ birds an’ th’ clouds. “And they are exactly the color of the sky over the moor.” “An’ his eyes is so round,” said Martha, a trifle doubtful. ![]() “Well,” she said, “he’s th’ best lad as ever was born, but us never thought he was handsome. Martha looked rather taken aback but she looked pleased, too. “I think-I think he’s beautiful!” said Mary in a determined voice. “I knew he’d come,” said Martha exultantly. Her dinner was waiting on the table, and Martha was waiting near it. Her hair was ruffled on her forehead and her cheeks were bright pink. Mary ran so fast that she was rather out of breath when she reached her room. You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today! This sense of British superiority over India can be seen in the way that the novel implicates India itself for Mary's sickliness, while the fresh moor air of England is the most prominent cure.The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. Mary's family was likely one of the many wealthy English families that colonized the country and, in the decades before World War I, maintained order in light of the frequent uprisings staged by rebel revolutionary groups. ![]() Also present in the novel are indicators of England's colonial rule over India and specifically, the racist views about India and Indian people. This is why Colin can get well when he decides to do so, and his conception of Magic positions it as a God-like entity. Christian Science, which was developed in the mid-nineteenth century alongside the American Spiritualism movement, states that illness isn't actually real or physiological it's something that takes place in the mind and can be cured through prayer. She lived in England at a manor house that inspired Misselthwaite Manor (and very briefly remarried) until 1907, when she returned to the New York area, continued to write, and lived lavishly until her death in 1924.īurnett's interest in Christian Science plays a major role throughout The Secret Garden. The two agreed to live separately for two years so that Burnett could list abandonment as a legal reason for divorce, though this earned Burnett scorn in the papers. ![]() Burnett and her husband divorced in 1898. In the 1880s she became interested in Christian Science, Spiritualism, and Theosophy, which influenced her later works and especially, The Secret Garden. While her husband worked on getting his medical practice started in Washington, D.C., Burnett published her first novel, That Lass o' Lowrie's, to positive reviews in 1877. The couple moved back and forth across the Atlantic several times. They lived in Paris for two years while he finished his medical schooling, and Burnett gave birth to her two sons there. As a young woman, Burnett began publishing stories in magazines to help support the family. Her father died when she was only four years old, and her mother moved the family to the U.S. Burnett was born in 1849 to a wealthy merchant father she was the third of five children. ![]()
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