'A sort of children’s Jane Eyre'

Inspired by the new film adaptation, The Guardian looks into Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden.

When Burnett wrote The Secret Garden – “a sort of children’s Jane Eyre”, as one of her friends described it, a characterisation that has been taken to heart by the latest film adaptation, directed by Marc Munden and starring Colin Firth, Julie Walters and Dixie Egerickx – she was 61, and had been a famous author for more than 40 years. (Aida Edemariam)

That friend, by the way, was Ella Hepworth Dixon, apparently quite a remarkable woman herself.

Slate reviews the miniseries The Queen’s Gambit.

Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) may turn out to be an American chess prodigy, but she starts out like Jane Eyre, watchful, quiet, alone. (Willa Paskin)