The Secret Garden The Secret Garden The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911 following the publication in 1910 of a serial version in a US magazine. Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is considered a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been made. The American edition was published by Stokes with illustrations by Maria Louise Kirk (signed as M. L. Kirk) and the British edition by Heinemann with illustrations by Charles Heath Robinson. At the turn of the 20th century, Mary
Sahib for many years, even when no Indian or Pakistani crew featured in the ship's company. The term is used throughout the children's novel "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. In Herman Cyril McNeile's 1920 novel "Bulldog Drummond", an Indian magician was performing tricks in front of a crowd and drew attention to a mysterious box. E.M. Forster also employed the term in his 1924 novel "A Passage to India". His Anglo-Indian characters refer to the Collector as Burra Sahib, implying the respect felt for him. The following dialogue in Dorothy Sayers's 1926 novel "Clouds of Witness" shows what the