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E. Nesbit

English author and poet (1858–1924)

For the American model, see Evelyn Nesbit.

Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children and others 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.

Biography

Nesbit was born in 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane, Kennington, Surrey (now classified as Inner London),^[a] the daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Nesbit, who died in March 1862, before her fourth birthday. Her mother was Sarah Green (née Alderton).

The ill health of Edith's sister Mary meant that the family travelled for some years, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angoulême, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Dinan in Brittany), Spain and Germany. Mary was engaged in 1871 to the poet Philip Bourke Marston, but late

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The Edith Nesbit Society

BIOGRAPHY OF E.NESBIT 1858 - 1924

Edith Nesbit was born in London in 1858. When she was four her father died but her mother bravely continued to run the agricultural college her husband, and before that, his father, had founded in Kennington, London.

Her childhood was shared with her sister, half sister and 3 brothers. She was educated on the continent when she accompanied her mother and sister Mary travelling throughout France, Germany and Spain. This was not an educational grand tour but an endeavour to get her sister well as she was suffering from tuberculosis.

Upon their return to England Edith's mother moved the family from London to Halstead, Kent. This was the start of Edith's love of the countryside and especially of Kent.

At 18 years of age she met Hubert Bland whom she was eventually to marry. They married in a Registry Office in the City of London and Hubert found Edith a home overlooking Blackheath, south east London. A move to a small terraced house in Elswick Road, Lewisham (still standing) with their first child, Paul, was to

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Poems Without Frontiers

Edith was born at Kennington (formerly Surrey but now a suburb of inner London) to a family in which her father was an agricultural chemist. He died when Edith was only three years old, however. Her sister, Mary, suffered from tuberculosis which for health reasons, led to the family moving frequently around Europe; but she died of the disease in 1871. The family then settled at Halstead, Kent and subsequently Lewisham, London.

Edith met her future husband, Hubert Bland, at the age of eighteen and married in 1880. The marriage was characterised by his infidelity, however. She adopted her husband's two illegitimate children, Rosamund and John as well as bearing him three children Paul, Mary and Fabian, but the latter died aged 15 after a tonsil operation.

Both partners developed an active interest in the Fabian Society which led them jointly to edit its journal, Today. Edith wrote and lectured widely on socialism and was a guest speaker at The London School of Economics.

Edith wrote poetry and became a prolific children's author the most famous