Characters in The Secret Garden

Supporting characters

• Lady Mary Lennox

  A sour, orphaned girl transformed by discovering and restoring a hidden garden.

• Dickon Sowerby

  Martha's younger brother, a nature-loving Yorkshire boy who charms animals and helps Mary restore the garden.

• Colin Craven

  Mary's invalid cousin, kept confined to the manor and convinced he will die young, until Mary and Dickon draw him outdoors.

• Martha Sowerby

  The good-natured housemaid whose plain talk and stories first open Mary to the world beyond herself.

• Archibald Craven

  Mary's grieving, hunchbacked uncle, who has withdrawn from his son and shut away the garden after his wife's death.

• Ben Weatherstaff

• Susan Sowerby

• Mrs. Medlock

• Dr. Craven