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 .
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
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
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.
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“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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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
Late in the nineteenth century she became poetry reviewer for the Athenæum.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson, 1987.
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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.
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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.