![]() ![]() While Martha works, Mary explores the manor’s vast gardens displaying a surprising affinity to nature and wildlife. Mary eventually warms to Martha and they become friends. She spoke in broad Yorkshire in her amazement. Martha sat up on her heels again and stared. “Who is going to dress me?” demanded Mary. Medlock’s servant,” she said stoutly … “but you won’t much waitin’ on.” “Are you going to be my servant?” Mary asked, still in her imperious little Indian way. With the no-nonsense attitude of the servants, Mary soon learns that her usual behaviour will not do at Misselthwaite and that she must learn to be independent. In England, Mary lives at Misselthwaite, a relatively secluded rambling estate on the Yorkshire moors. ![]() When an epidemic of cholera wipes out most of the village including her parents, Mary is sent to England to live with her uncle. Left alone almost all her life with her Indian servants, Mary grows to be a spoiled and snobbish girl who has come to expect that everything much be done for her. Her mother, a beautiful and graceful woman, is much more concerned about parties and society than about her sullen, sickly child. The Secret Garden begins with Mary Lennox, an unwanted and isolated ten year-old living in colonial India. There’s something so wonderfully mature about this children’s classic. ![]()
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