the secret garden 秘密花园课件.ppt

The Secret Garden;;I. An introduction;II. The author;Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett?was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her childrens stories, in particular?Little Lord Fauntleroy?《方特勒罗伊小爵爷》(published in 1885-6),?A Little Princess?(1905), and?The Secret Garden?(1911).;Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in?Cheetham, England. After her father died in 1852, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 immigrated to the United States, settling near?Knoxville, Tennessee. There Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In 1870 her mother died, and in 1872 Frances married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor. ;III. The background;From the mid-1890s she lived in England at?Great Maytham Hall—which had a large garden where she indulged her love for flowers—where she made her home for the next decade, although she continued annual transatlantic trips to the United States.?Maytham Hall resembled a feudal manor house which enchanted Burnett.;In 1907, she returned permanently to the United States, having become a citizen in 1905, and she built a home, completed in 1908, in the Plandome Park section of?Plandome Manor?on Long Island outside New York City. Her son Vivian was employed in the publishing business and at his request she agreed to be editor for?Childrens Magazine. Over the next several years she had published in Childrens Magazine?a number of shorter works. In 1911 she had?The Secret Garden?published.;IV. Main characters;Mary Lennox is a troubled, sickly, and unloved 10-year-old girl born in India to selfish, wealthy British parents. She is primarily cared for by servants, who pacify her as much as possible to keep her out of her parents way. She grows into a spoiled and selfish girl. Eventually, there is a?cholera?epidemic in India which kills Marys parents and all the servants. Mary is discovered alive but alone in the empty house. She briefly lives with an English