EN
published another novel that draws on judiciously altered material from her own life: The Red House, dedicated to Helen Macklin
, with a frontispiece portrait of the author's daughter Iris
.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
116, opposite 221
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
Friends, Associates
E. Nesbit
EN
's oldest and closest friends included Ada Breakell
(who hoped to marry Edith's brother Harry, and followed him to New Zealand after he emigrated). Edith used the language of love to her female friends...
