There she began writing stories to earn money and soon became a successful novelist, playwright, and children’s author. It was first published in 1911, after being serialised in The American Magazine the year before.įrances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester, England, in 1849 but moved to America in 1865 after her father died and her family fell on hard times. PROVENANCE: From the library of Barbara Rackham.The Secret Garden is a classic children’s novel about a disagreeable young orphan Mary Lennox, whose heals her own sickly soul when she moves from British India to the wild Yorkshire Moors and makes friends while rebuilding a hidden garden there after finding a mysterious key. Nor are they blind to decorative or arbitrarily designed treatment in art, any more than they are to poetic or rhythmic form in literature."ĭuring the war years Mrs Rackham and her daughter left London to avoid the air raids and it was during this period that Rackham presented this book to Barbara. Children will make no mistakes in the way of confusing the imaginative and symbolic with the actual. "I firmly believe in the greatest stimulating and educative power of imaginative, fantastic, and playful pictures and writings for children in their most impressionable years.
Writing in The Junior Book of Authors he made clear his belief in the importance of exposing children to fine literature and illustration. Housed in custom made collector's box.īarbara Rackham was born in 1908 and her father enjoyed helping her develop her knowledge of books, art and museums, by reading aloud and suggesting suitable and age appropriate books. To the head of the half title is a felt tip name of a subsequent child owner, Rosie Wild.
A very good copy, showing some signs of age, but remaining attractive. Inscribed on the half title by Arthur Rackham to his nine year old daughter, "Barbara Mary Rackham from her Father, January 1917", accompanying the inscription is a vignette drawing of a little girl in a night gown.Įight full page colour plates and pictorial endpapers by Charles Robinson. Original green cloth with gilt vignettes and title.
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