EN
first met Hubert Bland
in 1877. He was a good-looking political and intellectual idealist, and a womaniser. Born to a working-class family in Woolwich, he was running a business and had hopes of...
Family and Intimate relationships
E. Nesbit
Fictionalizing this event years later, she wrote, What a travesty of a wedding-day!
qtd. in
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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Within a year or two of the wedding she found out about Hubert's other sexual commitment; she went to see Maggie Doran