Misselthwaite

Left alone in the rambling hallways of Misselthwaite Manor in North Yorkshire, she is befriended by a maid named Martha (Courtney Stokes) and Martha's brother, Dickon (Alex Brightman), a talented young man who has a unique ability to communicate with plants and animals.

George Heymont: Basking in the Multiple Charms of The Secret Garden George Heymont 2011

When her parents die, lonely, sour little Mary Lennox has to live with her uncle at Misselthwaite Manor.

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In Birmingham, composer Garry Lyons and lyricist Tim Sutton give a musical spin to Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel about the orphaned and unhappy Mary Lennox, sent from India after the death of her parents to live with her uncle in the darkly mysterious Misselthwaite Manor on the windswept Yorkshire moors.

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If this tiresome hysterical boy should chance to get well he himself would lose all chance of inheriting Misselthwaite; but he was not an unscrupulous man, though he was a weak one, and he did not intend to let him run into actual danger.

The Secret Garden 1911

He began to think of Misselthwaite and wonder if he should not go home.

The Secret Garden 1911

This gave her so much to think of that she began to be quite interested and feel that she was not sorry that she had come to Misselthwaite Manor.

The Secret Garden 1911

"He won't get Misselthwaite at all now I'm not going to die."

The Secret Garden 1911

The sun was shining inside the four walls and the high arch of blue sky over this particular piece of Misselthwaite seemed even more brilliant and soft than it was over the moor.

The Secret Garden 1911

Then sometime when he comes back to Misselthwaite I shall just walk into his study and say ` Here I am; I am like any other boy.

The Secret Garden 1911

"And, there's nothing likely to improve children at Misselthwaite -- if you ask me!"

The Secret Garden 1911