As a child she spent most of her time reading books like Jane Eyre and The Secret Garden.
People noted to have visited the park include Pendlebury artist L.S. Lowry, a local rent collector, and author Frances Hodgson Burnett who wrote her classic children's novel The Secret Garden during one of her many visits to the estate house.
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Ben Weatherstaff in the The Secret Garden, is the only adult in the story to have some idea of the children's doings.
Educated in London and later at Cambridge, Wythe began his career as an actor in musical theatre appearing in stage productions including Peter Pan at the Cambridge Theatre in the West End, and The Secret Garden at Manchester Library Theatre.
She and her husband bought and rebuilt a country house, Great Maytham, at Rolvenden, Kent, a property whose old walled garden had earlier been the inspiration for The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
At the time she wrote Mine for Keeps, Little was teaching in a school for the disabled and she had written the book after becoming tired of reading her students books in which disabled child-characters either meet deaths or recover completely (like Clara in Heidi, or Colin in The Secret Garden).
Feigning interest in the book Winnie is reading, The Secret Garden, Winnie reads it aloud for him (one word at a time and stumbling over the hard ones), whilst Josh falls asleep.
She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy.
The Watermill is a piece of music which was written by Ronald Binge for a BBC adaptation of The Secret Garden.
Much of the storyline of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's story The Secret Garden revolves around a walled garden which has been locked for ten years.
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The house was the site for several exterior shots of the film The Secret Garden (1993), the house has also been shot in the 2008 film 1920, directed by Indian director Vikram Bhatt and the ITV television series Lost in Austen (2008) as Rosings Park.
Three years after this, following two final rounds of casting at London's Pinewood Studios she narrowly lost out on the role of Mary Lennox in Warner Bros' The Secret Garden, directed by Agnieszka Holland.
From there, he went on to play such roles as Doody from Grease, Dickon from The Secret Garden, and one of the Von Trapp Family from The Sound of Music.
Lowri has also performed in various London Children's Ballet (LCB) productions such as The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Secret Garden and Rumpelstiltskin, as well as performing the role of Petrova in LCB's 2010 production of Ballet Shoes.
Moorland forms the setting of various works of late Romantic English literature, ranging from the Yorkshire moorland in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett to Dartmoor in Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmesian mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Her most significant roles in this period included seven appearances in the series The Vise (first broadcast in the U.S. between October 1954 and December 1955, but not shown on TV in the UK until 1957-59) and a BBC adaptation of The Secret Garden in 1960.
The gardens are approximately 55 acres and include 15 different theme gardens, including a replica of the garden described in Frances Hodgson Burnett's book The Secret Garden.
She visited film studios in Hollywood, and spent several weeks observing the making of The Secret Garden, paying particular attention to the child stars Margaret O'Brien, Dean Stockwell and Brian Roper.
His career enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s, with Sparrow playing key roles in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as the blinded retainer Duncan, 1993's The Secret Garden as gruff gardener Ben Weatherstaff, and the 1995 American coming-of-age film Now and Then as tragic drifter 'Crazy Pete'.