The Secret Garden
Susan Sowerby
Martha and Dickon's mother
A warm, wise mother of twelve who sends Mary a skipping rope and later calls Mr. Craven home.
Susan Sowerby is the mother of Martha, Dickon and ten other children, and she lives in a cottage on the moor. She is warm, wise and practical, with a calm common sense and unconditional kindness. Mr. Craven respects her advice.
She is the motherly figure the manor's children do not have. She buys Mary a skipping rope out of her own money, and later she is the one who tells Mr. Craven to come home.
“Some calls it Magic and some calls it God, but it's all the same Joy.”
In the story
Contains spoilers.
At Colin's invitation, Susan visits the Secret Garden and sees him walking. She tells him he looks like his mother's own self. When Colin asks whether it is wrong to call the life in the garden Magic, she tells him some call it Magic and some call it God, but it is all the same Joy.
She writes to Archibald Craven, who is in the Alps: Come home, sir. You will be glad you came. That letter sets his return in motion.
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