Creating “a Little Garden of Our Own”: Constructions of Childhood and Knowledge About Gardening in Frances Burnett’s <i>The Secret Garden</i> (1911) and Arthur Mee’s <i>The Children’s Encyclopaedia</i> (1910)

Creating “a Little Garden of Our Own”: Constructions of Childhood and Knowledge About Gardening in Frances Burnett’s <i>The Secret Garden</i> (1911) and Arthur Mee’s <i>The Children’s Encyclopaedia</i> (1910)

Although there has been considerable previous scholarship on the garden and what it symbolises in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s <i>The Secret Garden</i> (1911), less attention has been paid to the act of gardening itself within the text. The present article reads this popular children’s nove...

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Main Authors: Sarah Hoem Iversen, Brianne Jaquette
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-11-01
Series:Literature
Subjects:
children’s fiction
children’s nonfiction
Edwardian period
gardening
constructions of knowledge
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2410-9789/4/4/19
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