Frances Hodgson Burnett died of congestive heart failure on October 29, 1924.
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Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett.
CHARACTERS .
Mary Lennox - Once of the novel's two protagonists, Mary Lennox is a ten-year-old girl who, after the death of her parents in India, is sent to live with her uncle in Yorkshire, England. Mary changes drastically over the course of The Secret Garden: she evolves.
From spoiled, unloved and unloving creature to a girl who is full of spirit and surrounded by friends. She begins the book as its central characters, but is later displaced by Colin.
Colin Craven - The other of the novel's protagonists, Colin Craven is Archibald Craven's ten-year-old son and heir. He was born shortly after the death of his mother, and his father could not bear to look at him because of his resemblance to her. It is feared that he will grown to be a hunchback like his father, and he has been treated as an invalid since his birth. Colin's childhood has been entirely bedridden, and his servants have been commanded to obey his every whim. As a result, Colin is extremely imperious and gloomy; when we first meet him, he is certain he is going to die. By novel's end, however, he too will have won his father's love. Both his and Mary's conversions are affected by the magical properties inherent in the secret garden.
Dickon Sowerby - Dickon is alternately described as "as common moor boy- and " a Yorkshire angel-; he is both. Two years older than Colin and Mary, Dickon has lived on Missel Moor his entire life, and has a uniquely intimate relationship with the land. He is described as looking like the god Pan (the god of ): he has rosy cheeks, rough curly hair, and blue eyes precisely the same color as the sky over the moor; he even carries a set of pan-pipes. Like Pan, he has the power to charm both animals and people: all the creatures who come close to him are instantly tamed, and he counts a fox, a crow, and two wild squirrels among his pets.