Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | E. Nesbit | EN
first met Alice Hoatson
, who became her husband's life-long lover. Biographer Julia Briggs
calls Hoatson her intensest and most painful friendship. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 107 Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 106-7 |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | Fictionalizing this event years later, she wrote, What a travesty of a wedding-day! Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson. 51 |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | In 1886, the year of EN
's first stillbirth, her close friend Alice Hoatson
became her husband's mistress. Alice then moved in with the Blands: ostensibly to help look after their children, since she was... |
Travel | E. Nesbit | The Bland family, with assorted friends, holidayed regularly in boating parties on the Medway; a frequent base was the village of Yalding. In January 1892 EN
travelled with Alice Hoatson
to Antibes on... |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | EN
's husband, Hubert Bland
, had a heart attack in November 1910 and the following year he began to lose his sight. Their triangular family life was changed by his giving up many of... |
Dedications | E. Nesbit | In the same year she contributed some of the contents to a series of four anthologies entitled from the seasons of the year Spring Songs and Sketches and so on, edited by herself and Robert Ellis Mack |
Publishing | E. Nesbit | From early in her marriage EN
began writing seriously for periodicals, for the sake of the income she could bring in. She submitted work in prose and poetry to the radical Weekly Dispatch, The... |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | EN
's career as a children's writer began in a very small way, with poems and stories to be included in greetings cards or little gift booklets. She and Alice Hoatson
were employed by Robert Ellis Mack |
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