The Magic Garden Author:Gene Stratton-Porter 1927. Stratton-Porter was an American feminist, environmentalist, photographer and one of Indiana's most famous female authors. Many of her writings were moralistic and romantic novels. The Magic Garden is about a little boy and girl that meet in a beautiful garden and the little girl promises the boy that some day she would meet him there again... more ». He goes off to study the violin in Italy and when he returns he finds the girl in the garden. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.« less