Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Hubert Bland
Standard Name: Bland, Hubert
Used Form: Fabian Bland
Connections
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Dedications | E. Nesbit | EN
dedicated her fifth collection of verse, Songs of Love and Empire, to her husband, Hubert Bland
. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 457 |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | EN
, seven months pregnant by Hubert Bland
, married him at a London registry office. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 50 |
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, 1990. |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. Nesbit | 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 | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
's involvement with the socialist and feminist movements of the day brought her into close contact with several notable activists and revolutionaries. Through the Fabian Society
, she interacted with Beatrice
and Sidney Webb |
Friends, Associates | Ethel Lilian Voynich | Back in London, Ethel Lilian Boole was further pulled into revolutionary causes after her friend Charlotte Wilson
(then an anarchist journalist, later a leader of the Fabian Women's Group
) introduced her to exiles Sergei Kravchinskii |
Friends, Associates | Olive Schreiner | In England she also formed close friendships and intellectual bonds with feminist and socialist intellectual Eleanor Marx
, barrister and mathematics professor Karl Pearson
, and socialist pioneer Edward Carpenter
. Others she met in... |
Friends, Associates | Amber Reeves | AR
's parents' circle of friends quickly grew to include most of the Fabians: Beatrice
and Sidney Webb
, Edith Nesbit
and her husband Hubert Bland
, George Bernard Shaw
and H. G. Wells
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under William Pember Reeves |
politics | E. Nesbit | EN
and her husband were early members of the Fabian Society
. They hoped to see radical change in society, though Hubert Bland
was also capable of cynicism and of making fun of his fellow... |
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... |
Publishing | E. Nesbit | A second collaborative novel, Something Wrong by Fabian Bland (that is EN
and her husband
), appeared serially in the Weekly Dispatch, but did not make it into print as a volume. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 76 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 153 |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | EN
shared with her husband
the editorship (obtained for them in part by Shaw
) of the socialist journal To-Day, which serialized his novels. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 94 Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 199 |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | As early as April 1884 EN
and her husband
were planning to write a novel together. Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987. 61 and n25 |
Textual Production | E. Nesbit | EN
and her husband
, as Fabian Bland, jointly published their first novel, The Prophet's Mantle, which fictionalizes her own early married experience as that of a woman named Alice. Their pseudonym was... |
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Texts
Nesbit, E., and Hubert Bland. The Prophet’s Mantle. Henry Drane, 1888.