6/22/2023 0 Comments The secret garden inga moore![]() I’m reading an abridged version, which is still plenty long. The Secret Garden is a very clear example of the Gothic in literature. The haunted house and grounds are also straight out of a Gothic horror. The Secret Garden utilises a madwoman in the attic trope, though the prisoner is a boy, not a madwoman. In some ways it’s typical of its time, in other ways ahead of its time. ![]() If we’re going to call it children’s literature, The Secret Garden is an example from the First Golden Age of Children’s Literature, which lasted from 1850 until the first World War. Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it. ![]() At times it sounds like a parenting manual: ![]() If there’s a moral in this story, it’s aimed at parents. When I think a little harder though, it makes sense that The Secret Garden was aimed at adult readers. ![]()
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