The Secret Garden may be one of the first instances of a story for children first appearing in a magazine with an adult readership,[32] an occasion of which Burnett herself was aware at the time.[19] The Secret Garden was first published in ten issues (November 1910 – August 1911) of The American Magazine, with illustrations by J. Scott Williams.[33] It was first published in book form in August 1911 by the Frederick A. Stokes Company in New York;[34] it was also published that year by William Heinemann in London, illustrated by Charles Robinson. Its copyright expired in the USA in 1986,[35] and in most other parts of the world in 1995, placing the book in the public domain. As a result, several abridged and unabridged editions were published in the late 1980s and early 1990s, such as a full-colour illustrated edition from David R. Godine, Publisher in 1989.
Inga Moore's abridged edition of 2008, illustrated by her, is arranged so that a line of the text also serves as a caption to a picture.
