When escorted to Misselthwaite by the housekeeper Mrs Medlock, she discovers Lilias Craven is dead and that Mr Craven is a hunchback.Īt first, Mary is as sour and rude as ever. He lives on the Yorkshire Moors in a large English country house, Misselthwaite Manor. She is soon sent to England to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, whom her father's sister Lilias married.
She is discovered by British soldiers who place her in the temporary care of an English clergyman, whose children taunt her by calling her " Mistress Mary, quite contrary". After a cholera epidemic kills Mary's parents, the few surviving servants flee the house without Mary. She is cared for primarily by native servants, who allow her to become spoilt, demanding and self-centred. At the turn of the 20th century, Mary Lennox is a neglected and unloved 10-year-old girl, born in British India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her and made an effort to ignore her.
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