W38 EN 1HV The Secret Garden

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Week 38, Lesson 3/4

Your goals

You make yourself familiar with the book that we are going to read

Info zoeken

Groep 1: info over historische achtergrond. Wanneer speelt het zich af? Hoe zag het Engelse rijk er toen uit?

Groep 2: info over de schrijfster. Naam, wanneer geboren/gestorven? Wat deed zij? Belangrijk waarom?

Groep 3: zoek op "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary". Wat is dit? Waar gaat het over? Wat kan dit te maken hebben met de film? 

The Secret Garden

By Frances Hodgson Burnett

Published in 1911 after serialisation in the American Magazine in 1910-1911

Set in England at the turn of the 20th century

Seen as a classic of English children's literature

 Frances Hodgson Burnett

24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924

 British-American novelist and playwright

was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. Emigrated to the United States in 1865

Beginning in the 1880s, Burnett began to travel to England frequently and in the 1890s bought a home there, where she wrote The Secret Garden.

 Frances Hodgson Burnett

In a book about her Burnett thinks back to her friendship with a real-life English robin, whom she described as "a person—not a mere bird" and who often kept her company in the rose garden where she would often write.

Biographical setting

Maytham Hall in Kent, England, where Burnett lived for a number of years during her marriage, is often cited as the inspiration for the book's setting.

Burnett kept an extensive garden, including an impressive rose garden.

Title

The book's working title was Mistress Mary, a reference to the English nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary.

Movie Time!