The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults
Taesha Glasgow
4 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Fall asleep tonight to the opening chapters of the Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This book was published in 1911 and is considered one of the best children's novels of the 20th century. In this episode, Mary Lennox is forgotten amid the chaos of the cholera outbreak in her home.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host. Every week, I will read you |
| 0:17.1 | an old story to help you relax, put the stressful day behind you, and drift off to sleep. |
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| 1:09.7 | Do, do, do, bumper. |
| 1:16.9 | Bampa, enough Rasmataz. But it's not every day a new scratch card drops. |
| 1:24.7 | With the new set for five years scratch card from the national lottery. |
| 1:29.0 | You could win five grand a month, every month for five years. |
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| 1:51.5 | Tonight, I will be reading The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett. |
| 1:59.9 | So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story. |
| 2:06.3 | Chapter 1. There is no one left. |
| 2:15.4 | When Mary Lennox was sent to Misslethwaate Manor to live with her uncle, |
| 2:20.7 | everybody said she was the most disagreeable looking child ever seen. |
| 2:31.5 | It was true too. She had a thin little face and a thin little body, thin light hair, and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow and her face was yellow because she had been |
| 2:37.8 | born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position |
| 2:45.3 | under the English government and had always been busy and ill himself. And her mother had been a great beauty who cared only |
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