Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden has been described as “the most significant children’s book of the 20th century.” First published in 1911, after being serialised in The American Magazine, it was dismissed by one critic at the time as simple and lacking “plenty of excitement”. The novel is, in fact, a sensitive and complex […]
Author Archives: Emma Hayes
Emma Hayes teaches Children’s Literature and Literary Studies at Deakin University. Her research focuses on Victorian and Edwardian children’s texts, with an emphasis on liminality and representations of the ‘in-between’.