Frances Hodgson Burnettâs The Secret Garden has been described as âthe most significant childrenâs book of the 20th century.â First published in 1911, after being serialised in The American Magazine, it was dismissed by one critic at the time as simple and lacking âplenty of excitementâ. The novel is, in fact, a sensitive and complex […]
Author Archives: Emma Hayes
Emma Hayes teaches Childrenâs Literature and Literary Studies at Deakin University. Her research focuses on Victorian and Edwardian childrenâs texts, with an emphasis on liminality and representations of the âin-betweenâ.