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Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party.
Apr 30, 2024 · E. Nesbit (born August 15, 1858, London, England—died May 4, 1924, New Romney, Kent) was a British children’s author, novelist, and poet. Nesbit spent her childhood in France and Germany and later led an ordinary country life in Kent, which provided scenes for her books.
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Oct 8, 2019 · “The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit,” a new biography by Eleanor Fitzsimons, is an admiring portrait of the author of “The Railway Children” and dozens of other books.
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- The Railway Children E. Nesbit.
- Five Children and It (Five Children, #1) E. Nesbit.
- The Phoenix and the Carpet (Five Children, #2) E. Nesbit.
- The Enchanted Castle E. Nesbit, H.R. Millar (Illustrator)
- An introduction to E. Nesbit and her work. The following biography, which contains much bibliographic material about E. Nesbit’s best-known books, is adapted from her autobiography Long Ago When I was Young (Franklin Watts, 1966).
- A curious writer. It is on the whole just the opposite side of the picture that comes out in her stories. Perhaps it was as a present to her child-self that E. Nesbit gave her fictional families such strong roots.
- Five Children and It. Then there was the magic trilogy, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, and The Story of the Amulet. In these books, readers met Robert, Anthea, Jane, Cyril, and the baby called The Lamb.
- The Railway Children. There is nothing remotely alike about E. Nesbit’s much-loved holiday home in France and Three Chimneys, the cottage in England in which the children in The Railway Children (1906) lived, but there is a connection in the reference to running wild.
The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and published in book form in the same year. It has been adapted for the screen several times, of which the 1970 film version is the best known.
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Edith Nesbit's biography by The Edith Nesbit Society, founded in 1996 and aims to celebrate the life and work of the author and her friends, by means of talks, publications and visits to relevant places.
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