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by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Orphaned in India, sour and lonely Mary Lennox is sent to her uncle's vast house on the Yorkshire moors, where nobody wants her and a garden has been locked for ten years. With a robin, a moorland boy called Dickon and a hidden cousin who believes he is dying, she brings it back to life, and herself with it.
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Elizabeth von Arnim
Published anonymously in 1898, this is a year in the life of an English wife on her husband's estate in northern Germany, where she escapes household duty, unwanted visitors and the "Man of Wrath" into a garden she is determined to make her own. Wry, sunny and quietly rebellious, it reads like a letter from a very funny friend.
ClassicsLiterary
Elizabeth von Arnim
On a wet February afternoon in London, two women who barely know each other answer a newspaper advertisement for a small medieval castle on the Italian coast, to let for April. With two strangers recruited to share the cost, four unhappy women arrive at San Salvatore, and the month slowly works on each of them. Funny, generous and full of wisteria.
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L. M. Montgomery
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert send for an orphan boy to help on their Prince Edward Island farm and get Anne Shirley instead: eleven, red-haired, talkative and in love with every word she knows. Her scrapes, friendships and boundless imagination win over Avonlea one person at a time.
