By the time Frances Hodgson Burnett began writing ‘The Secret Garden,’ she had already built a highly successful literary career spanning several decades. She had several highly successful books to her name, the most successful of which, ‘Little Lord Fauntleroy,’ sold hundreds of thousands of copies on both sides of the Atlantic. However, none of the author's previous works could compare in popularity to ‘The Secret Garden’—a novel that has been repeatedly adapted for film, television, stage, and radio, and which is deservedly considered a classic of English literature.