Mary’s friendship with Ben grows stronger, but they soon fight and he storms off. As Martha leaves, Mary hears a faint sound of someone crying. Martha tells her to write a letter to Dickon to bring some tools for her. Later, she asks Martha if she has any tools to aid in gardening. Chapter 9: “The Strangest House Anyone Ever Lived In” While skipping rope down a small pathway, she discovers a hidden door which she unlocks with the key she found earlier. Martha tells Mary that her mother is truly enchanted by the stories of the girl from India. Mary continues her search for the secret garden, to no avail. Chapter 8: “The Robin Who Showed the Way” Martha comes to find out that Mary doesn’t even like herself. Mary realizes that for the first time, she actually likes and cares for someone else. She comes upon several portraits of a woman that looks just like her. Chapter 6: “‘There Was Someone Crying-There Was!’” After that, the master locked the garden forever. The master’s wife used to climb a tree and fell from it one day causing her death. Martha tells her more about it and about its history. Mary continues to look for the secret garden. In trying to find it, she meets Ben Weatherstaff and talks about the robin that has befriended him. Mary goes out to explore and learns of a secret garden. Mary and Martha exchange words and Mary screams at Martha. Mary asks Martha to dress her, for which Martha is taken aback.

Mary awakens and meets Martha, a servant girl. Medlock shuts Mary in her room and forbids her to wander the mansion. Medlock arrive at the mansion to find that Mr. Medlock-she and Mary instantly dislike each other.

Afterwards, she is sent to live with Archibald Craven, a hermit uncle. Mary is sent to live with an English clergyman and his five children. Chapter 2: “Mistress Mary Quite Contrary” Her parents and family have either died or fled from the terror surrounding India. Mary is abandoned in India, where a cholera epidemic has broken out. These discoveries combined with the unlikely friendships she makes along the way help Mary come out of her shell and find new fascination with the world around her.īurnett, F. Mary becomes intrigued by the prospect of the forgotten garden, and her quest to find out the garden's secrets leads her to discover other secrets hidden in the manor. Craven's walled garden, which has been closed and locked since her death. The only person who has time for Mary is her chambermaid, Martha. Craven, who travels often to escape the memory of his deceased wife. The book tells the story of Mary Lennox, a spoiled, contrary, solitary child raised in India but sent to live in her uncle’s manor in Yorkshire after her parents' death. The Secret Garden (1909) is one of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s most popular novels.

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