Minor Characters
This character didn't pay much attention to her daughter.
Who is Mary's mother (a.k.a. Lilias Lennox)?
This character is often referred to as contrary, which is also found in a popular children's rhyme.
Who is Mary Lennox?
This place is where cholera broke out in the story.
What is India?
This type of flower covers the garden.
What are roses?
The door to the secret garden has been locked for this number of years.
What are ten years?
This character was the nurse or nanny leading up to the epidemic.
Who is Ayah?
This character lost his wife.
Who is Mr. Craven (a.k.a. Archibald Craven)?
British soldiers discover a child after the epidemic, so she is sent to this country.
What is England?
When Colin grows up, he hopes to do this.
What is make scientific discoveries?
In addition to keeping the garden a secret, Colin wants to surprise his father about this.
What is health?
This character showed the key to the Secret Garden.
Who is the robin?
To this maid's shock, she found Mary incapable of getting dressed.
Who is Martha Sowerby?
This place was compared to the ocean. It was a "great expanse of dark," and the wind sounded like the sea.
What is the moor?
Martha and Dickon's mother, Susan Sowerby compares the world to this.
What is an orange?
These two things happened that made Mr. Craven decide to go home.
What are a dream and Mrs. Sowerby's letter?
This character raised 12 children in a humble cottage yet gave away a jump rope for playing with.
Who is Martha's mother (a.k.a. Susan Sowerby)?
This character has the ability to charm animals and people.
Who is Dickon Sowerby?
This place is called "queer" and "gloomy," with many shut up and locked rooms.
What is Misselthwaite Manor?
Dickon, Mary, and Colin do these daily to improve their health.
What is exercise?
The characters sing a song together. It is called this.
What is the Doxology?
This character says he and the main character are alike because "neither of us good-lookin' an' we're both of us sour as sour as we look. We've got the same nasty tempers...".
Who is Ben Weatherstaff?
This character turns out to be a cousin (a.k.a. "the Rajah").
Who is Colin Craven?
This place is referred to as a "bit of earth".
What is the Secret Garden?
In the Yorkshire dialect that Dickon speaks, this word is used to mean "alive."
What is "wick"?
Colin lectures his companions on this. Susan Sowerby calls it "Th' Big Good Thing". We would give credit to the one true God, which Colin hints at.
What is magic?