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'When I was a child, the books I read were the classics of English children’s literature, such as Frances Hodgkin Burnett’s The Secret Garden (1911), the adventures of the headstrong American heroine in Susan Coolidge’s Katy series (1872) and Ethel Turner’s Seven Little Australians (1894). ...'