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Although the Persephone editions are beautiful, I felt lucky to find a 1907 copy in a used bookstore. I like imagining the previous readers happily taking home Burnett's newest creation and passing it on to friends and family.
As in A Secret Garden and A Little Princess, Burnett has a character who enables deprived human beings and gardens to flourish. Betty's energetic compassion and reasonable approach to confronting trial made for an exhilarating read. Her encounters with the villain did not strike as melodramatic, but as a thoughtful, revisionary approach to the women-in-distress theme, and unhappily there are plenty of psychopaths and manipulators in real life. The only parts I didn't love were the primeval man theme and the few paeons to imperialism.