A to Z Challenge: More Fictional Favorites! Day 24: Mary Lennox from The Secret Garden

Xis for — Mary LennoX from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden

I am totally cheating here, choosing a character whose name ends in X rather than beginning with X.

The Secret Garden is one of my favorite books. Written in the early 1900s, it tells the story of young Mary Lennox, a spoiled brat who is ignored by her wealthy parents and is brought up by servants instructed to keep Mary out of her parents’ way. She lives in India until a cholera epidemic kills everyone in her household,...