The Secret Garden (1949 film) the film earned $610,000 in the US and Canada and $383,000 overseas, resulting in a loss of $848,000. The Secret Garden (1949 film) The Secret Garden is a 1949 US drama film. It is the second screen adaptation of the classic 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett (the first adaption was a silent version filmed in 1919) which starred Lila Lee and Spottiswoode Aitken. The screenplay by Robert Ardrey was directed by Fred M. Wilcox. It centers on a young orphan who is thrust into the dark and mysterious lives of her widowed uncle and his crippled son when she
Author, Author (novel) and her feelings for him. Lodge's depiction of their relationship allows him subtly to explore James' alleged lifelong virginity and to conjecture somewhat about his notorious prudishness. Author, Author (novel) Author, Author is a novel by David Lodge, written in 2004. The book is based on the life of the author Henry James. It was released at about the same time as "The Master" by Colm Tóibín and other books about James, and Lodge wrote "" about this. Lodge populates his novel with several of the most famous figures of English literature from the time of the book's setting in