The stories included some told in Romney Marsh dialect and some based on seafaring yarns told by her second husband
.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Residence
E. Nesbit
EN
sold Well Hall, which she could not afford to keep up, and moved with her second husband, the Skipper
, to two converted RAF
huts outside the village of St Mary in the...
Family and Intimate relationships
E. Nesbit
Three years after the death of her first husband
, EN
married Thomas Terry Tucker
(known as the Skipper), a marine engineer and captain of the London County Council
ferry at Woolwich.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.