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The Chalk Garden is a play by Enid Bagnold that premiered on Broadway in 1955. The play tells the story of Mrs. St Maugham and her granddaughter Laurel a disturbed child under the care of Miss Madrigal a governess. The setting of the play was inspired by Bagnold’s own garden at North End House in Rottingdean near Brighton Sussex the former home of Sir Edward Burne-Jones. The work has since been revived numerous times internationally including a film adaptation in 1964.