The protagonist of the Secret Garden is little Mary Lennox, a nine-year-old girl who, orphan of both parents, is entrusted to an uncle, the hunchbacked noble Lord Archibald Craven who lives in a gloomy castle lost on the moor. Here Mary discovers that her uncle's melancholy nature is due to the death of his wife Lilias in their personal garden. Out of desperation, Uncle Archibald had closed that garden and had the key buried, so that no one could set foot in that "sacred" place.
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