Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | After her affair with Shaw, thinks Julia Briggs, EN
was more self-protective in her flirtations. By choosing a succession of admirers who were younger and less established in the world than herself, she received homage... |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | EN
published her second independent novel (and the first to appear in England), the historical romance The Secret of Kyriels, at first titled Kyriel's Bridge; the idea came from Oswald Barron
. Her... |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | EN
's The Story of the Amulet, sequel to Five Children and It, expressed (like others of her children's books) a vivid sense of the historical endurance of objects which may be traceable... |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. Nesbit | It had already appeared serially from January 1905 to January 1906: Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 242, 460 |
Performance of text | E. Nesbit | Having collaborated with Oswald Barron
on the farce A Family Novelette (staged in February 1894), EN
continued from time to time to write for the theatre: most of her plays remained unpublished. Following her son... |
Publishing | E. Nesbit | EN
's collaborations with Oswald Barron
began with The Life-Lamp, which appeared in Atalanta in June 1893. They collaborated again in several genres: in A Family Novelette (a farce performed in a public hall... |
Textual Features | E. Nesbit | This saw the first appearance of EN
's famous Bastable family: Mary, Oswald, Dicky, and the twins (Alice and Noel, each of whom represents a different side of their creator). While Oswald and Dicky were... |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | EN
's The Rainbow and the Rose, another collection of poems, contains in Via Amoris (The Way of Love) a sequence apparently inspired by the departure from her life of Oswald Barron
. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 197n2 TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 167 (24 March 1905): 98 |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | Contributors included EN
herself, Gerald Gould
, G. K. Chesterton
, Andrew Lang
, and Oswald Barron
. Nesbit's idealistic promise that she would print the plain naked unashamed truth, in contrast to the lies... |
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