The Forgotten Garden Gothic conventions found in books like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, most poignantly the dark and gloomy estate. There are also recognizable parallels between this novel and Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden". Published in the United States by Atria Books, April 2009, , hardback. Kate Morton drew on personal experiences as she wrote "The Forgotten Garden." Morton's own grandmother, just like Nell, found out on her 21st birthday that she was not the biological daughter of her parents. It was a secret she kept until she confided in her three older daughters as an old woman, and this dark
Samavia as the Iarovitch tried to crown Nicola Iarovitch king. The Secret Party was, though, capable of rising up and sweeping aside the feuding dynasties and proclaim Stefan Loristan, descendant of the Lost Prince, king. The ultimate fate of the countries is not described by the author, but it might be presumed that Samavia was absorbed into one of the East and Central Europe nations formed after World War I. Samavia Samavia is a fictional state in Eastern Europe created in the novel "The Lost Prince" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Samavia is not precisely located in terms of real life geography,