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Mastery at Misselthwaite Manor: Taming the Shrews in The Secret Garden
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 41, 2013
- pp. 204-224
- 10.1353/chl.2013.0006
- Article
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This essay uncovers the links between The Secret Garden and the venerable shrewtaming tradition. Reading the plot as a double story of shrew-taming, the essay addresses why so many readers who remember the novel fondly also forget its conclusion in order to resist the operations of its plot.