<Ul> <Li> Frances Hodgson Burnett used this nursery rhyme to describe the personality and mannerisms of Mary Lennox in her children's novel The Secret Garden (1911), where the other children at her temporary home with an English clergyman call her "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" and reference the rhyme . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Frances Hodgson Burnett used this nursery rhyme to describe the personality and mannerisms of Mary Lennox in her children's novel The Secret Garden (1911), where the other children at her temporary home with an English clergyman call her "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" and reference the rhyme . </Li>

Who looked after a garden with silver bells and cockle shells