Complementing her fascinating account with charming period photographs and illustrations, McDowell paints an unforgettable portrait of a great artist and reminds us why The Secret Garden continues to touch readers after more than a century. In Unearthing The Secret Garden, McDowell delves into the professional and gardening life of Frances Hodgson Burnett. In her latest, she shares a moving account of how gardening deeply inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author of the beloved children's classic The Secret Garden. New York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has revealed the way that plants have stirred some of our most cherished authors, including Beatrix Potter, Emily Dickinson, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. About the Book Marta McDowell returns with a beautiful, gift-worthy account of how plants and gardening deepy inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of the beloved children's classic The Secret Garden.īook Synopsis "Affectionate and informative, Unearthing the Secret Garden is not unlike a garden itself, with its smooth lawns of prose and striking shows of illustration and photography." - The Wall Street Journal
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As this epistolary novel unfolds, the lives and experiences of Black women living in the American South reveal the power of female relationships, and the complicated dynamics of race, sexuality, and violence. When Celie is separated from her sister Nettie and forced to marry a cruel and abusive farmer, her letters to both God and Nettie sustain her hope for her sister’s future, despite the barriers of distance, time, and silence. In the opening pages of Alice Walker’s classic 1982 novel The Color Purple, we read a letter written by 14-year-old Celie, detailing the sexual abuse she experiences by the man she calls ‘father’. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me." "You better not never tell nobody but God. |