E. Nesbit

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Standard Name: Nesbit, E.
Birth Name: Edith Nesbit
Nickname: Daisy
Indexed Name: E. Nesbit
Married Name: Edith Bland
Pseudonym: Ethel Mortimer
Pseudonym: Fabian Bland
Married Name: Edith Tucker
EN , writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, was an immensely prolific poet, journalist, novelist, and occasionally a playwright, who is remembered today almost entirely for her enduringly popular story-books for children (which number about forty). Her children's books are highly imaginative and full of fun. They involve their child protagonists in encounters, often magical, with worlds beyond their own: not only in literary, historical, and fantasy encounters, but also in those which raise social and political issues in terms that children can understand. Her writing for adults includes novels, poetry, short stories, plays, magazine contributions and editing, political commentary, and everything that might possibly be undertaken by a hard-up woman of letters.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Lucy Boston
The adventure side of things is distinctly lacking here; the action of the book consists of Roger's visits backwards and forwards between his own present time and that of the (to him) future residents of...
Textual Production Dorothy Boulger
DB and Edith Nesbit published their first collection of children's stories, Twice Four, in London.
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Textual Production Dorothy Boulger
A story by DB provided the title for Dulcie's Lantern and Other Stories, a second collection of children's stories which she authored with Edith Nesbit and others.
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Textual Features A. S. Byatt
The author at the heart of this story is a children's writer, Olive Wellwood, who is married to a wealthy banker and lives in a Kentish farmhouse strangely called Todefright. The actual Edith Nesbit ,...
Education Agatha Christie
By the time Agatha was born, Clara Miller believed that girls ought not to learn to read before the age of eight. Defiantly, Agatha taught herself to read at five. She eagerly devoured Lewis Carroll
Occupation Marie Corelli
Her guardianship of Shakespeare 's memory extended to public opposition of the Baconian theory that emerged in the early twentieth century: the belief that Shakespeare was not the author of the works attributed to him...
Literary responses Frances Cornford
The writer E. Nesbit particularly admired The Watch and wished, on her deathbed, that she had written it herself.
Briggs, Julia. A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924. Hutchinson.
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Philip Larkin included both of these among the four of Cornford's poems that he chose...
Textual Features Dinah Mulock Craik
The Adventures of a Brownie makes a wee man in the coal cellar an accessary to children's pleasures.
Mitchell, Sally. Dinah Mulock Craik. Twayne.
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The text is available with illustrations online at the Victorian Women Writers Project at http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/craik/brownie.html.
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Textual Production May Crommelin
MC was a regular contributor to The Idler.
“May Crommelin (Maria Henriette de la Cherois-Crommelin) (1849 - 1930)”. Crommelin Family, The Netherlands.
On 30 January 1895 (as Over the Andes, from Argentine to Chile and Peru began the serialization that ran all year) she contributed A Water Horse...
Reception Frances Ridley Havergal
A unique copy has recently surfaced of a tiny book entitled Precious Promises for every day of the week, which combines verses by FRH with coloured illustrations by Ellen Welby . It is unpaginated...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Susan Hill
SH gives free rein to her enjoyment of list-making. Writers mentioned (not in a list or lists) include E. Nesbit (read by Noel Coward on his deathbed), Pamela Hansford Johnson and her husband C. P. Snow
Textual Production Judith Kazantzis
This remarkable anthology brings to a wider audience poems by many otherwise unknown writers, as well as by, for instance, Vera Brittain , Edith Sitwell , Nancy Cunard , Cicely Hamilton , Rose Macaulay ,...
Friends, Associates May Kendall
MK began publishing in 1885. During this decade she became friends with classical scholar and poet Andrew Lang , who advanced her career as a writer.
Birch, Catherine Elizabeth. Evolutionary Feminism in Late-Victorian Women’s Poetry: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden and May Kendall. University of Birmingham.
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Although she was never part of a literary...
Intertextuality and Influence Rudyard Kipling
The book was serialised in the Strand, where the first instalment appeared alongside one from Edith Nesbit 's The Story of the Amulet, the last of a trilogy featuring children who travel back...
Textual Features Rudyard Kipling
As Puck of Pook's Hill opens, the contemporary children Dan and Una unintentionally conjure up the fairy Puck. At first he only tells them stories of the distant past, but then he begins to bring...

Timeline

January 1888: The Star was launched as a radical evening...

Writing climate item

January 1888

The Star was launched as a radical evening paper in London.

4 February 1888: Annie Besant and W.T. Stead edited the first...

Women writers item

4 February 1888

Annie Besant and W.T. Stead edited the first weekly issue of The Link: A Journal for the Servants of Man / Law and Liberty League, published in London.

1964: When Julia Ballam (an undergraduate at St...

Building item

1964

When Julia Ballam (an undergraduate at St Hilda's College, Oxford , who later became the scholar Julia Briggs) got pregnant, the college stripped her of her scholarship, but more remarkably for this date they did...

1977: The Guardian Award for Children's Books went...

Women writers item

1977

The Guardian Award for Children's Books went to Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones , about an ambitious young enchantress holed up in a castle,
Ashby, Melanie. “Diana Wynne Jones”. Mslexia, No. 26, pp. 46-8.
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which, she says, revisits the trope of the isolated...

Texts

Nesbit, E. A Pomander of Verse. John Lane, 1895.
Nesbit, E. Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism, 1883-1908. Fabian Society; A. C. Fifield, 1908.
Nesbit, E. Daphne in Fitzroy Street. George Allen and Sons, 1909.
Nesbit, E. Dormant. Methuen, 1911.
Boulger, Dorothy, and E. Nesbit. Dulcie’s Lantern and Other Stories. Griffith, Farran, 1895.
Nesbit, E., and H. R. Millar. Five Children and It. T. Fisher Unwin, 1902.
Nesbit, E. Grim Tales. A. D. Innes, 1893.
Nesbit, E., and H. R. Millar. Harding’s Luck. Hodder and Stoughton, 1909.
Nesbit, E. Lays and Legends. Longmans, Green, 1886.
Nesbit, E. et al. Long Ago When I Was Young. Whiting and Wheaton, 1966.
Nesbit, E. Many Voices. Hutchinson, 1922.
Nesbit, E. et al. New Treasure Seekers. T. Fisher Unwin, 1904.
Nesbit, E., and Gerald Spencer Pryse. Salome and the Head. Alston Rivers, 1909.
Nesbit, E. Something Wrong. A. D. Innes, 1893.
Nesbit, E. Songs of Love and Empire. A. Constable, 1898.
Nesbit, E., and H. R. Millar. The House of Arden. T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.
Nesbit, E. The Incredible Honeymoon. Harper and Brothers, 1916.
Nesbit, E. The Lark. Hutchinson, 1922.
Nesbit, E., and H. R. Millar. The Magic City. Macmillan, 1910.
Nesbit, E. et al., editors. The Neolith.
Nesbit, E., and H. R. Millar. The Phoenix and the Carpet. G. Newnes, 1904.
Nesbit, E. The Pilot.
Nesbit, E., and Hubert Bland. The Prophet’s Mantle. Henry Drane, 1888.
Nesbit, E., and Charles Edmund Brock. The Railway Children. Wells, Gardner, Darton, 1906.
Nesbit, E. The Rainbow and the Rose. Longmans, Green, 1905.