The mysterious garden

Francis Eliza Bernett (1849-1924)-Anglo-American writer and playwright.

to write Francis to help a family in a difficult position. In an autobiography, she said that she was hired to work on the collection of grapes in order to pay for mail costs for sending manuscripts to magazines. Her stories under various pseudonyms began to appear in the press. In the 80s of the nineteenth century, the novels and the novel by Bernett are already printed on both sides of the ocean. Among her most famous works, the story “Little Lord Fountler”, the novels “The mysterious garden”, “Little Princess”.

The Mysterious Garden was first published completely in 1911. A ten -year -old girl Mary Lennox is brought to the old Yorkshire estate from India. Her parents died, and the girl was handed over to the care of Uncle - Mr. Archibald Kraven. In the uncle’s house, she needs to get used to a completely different life... Once a young maid tells about the mysterious garden, which Mrs. Craven had previously looked after, but after her death it is forbidden to enter. The girl decides to find him...