Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

The Secret Garden (version 3)

by Frances Hodgson BURNETT (1849 - 1924)

When Mary Lennox, who has been brought up in India in a spoiled manner, is orphaned she has to move to Yorkshire, England, to live with her uncle in Misselthwaite Manor. Here she is treated much differently than she was in India - she is able to make friends with children her own age, one of these being her sickly cousin, Colin Craven (Introduction by ashleighjane)

Listen next episodes of The Secret Garden (version 3):
A Tantrum , A Young Rajah , Across the Moors , Ben Weatherstaff , Dickon , "I am Colin" , "I Shall Live Forever - and Ever - and Ever!" , "I Won't!" Said Mary , In the Garden , "It Has Come!" , "It's Mother!" , "Let Them Laugh" , Magic , Martha , "Might I Have a Bit of Earth?" , Nest Building , ""Tha' Munnot Waste No Time" , The Cry in the Corridor , The Curtain , The Key to the Garden , The Nest of the Missel Thrush , The Robin Who Showed the Way , The Strangest House Any One Ever Lived In , "There Was Someone Crying - There Was!" , When the Sun Went Down