The Secret Garden Archives

Madeleine L’Engle is, without a doubt, a giantess of middle grade fiction. “A Wrinkle in Time” holds a place of beloved esteem […]

What to do with Your Most Annoying Child

Here, we begin a series on “your most annoying child.” Everyone has one! Just as we should not play favorites, it’s bad […]

Are people of the British Isles exceptionally good at writing about mothers or do the British Isles have exceptionally good mothers to […]

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Gardenis now considered a children’s story, but the work originally appeared as a serial for adult readers. […]

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure […]

Good mothers are hard to find in literature. Often, stories feature mothers who are deceased, a beatific light from afar, a selfless […]