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Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English writer and poet who write over 60 children's books under the name "E. Nesbit" including "The Railway Children," "Five Children and It" (the first book in the Psammead Series), "The Story of the Treasure Seekers," (part of the Bastable Series) as well as two books comprising the House of Arden series.Nesbit's father John died when she was very young and the poor health of her sister Mary caused the family to travel a great deal to treat Mary's illnesses. The family settled in Halstead Hall in northwest Kent (a location that inspired The Railway Children) after Mary's death from tuberculosis in 1871.Nesbit met the bank clerk Hubert Bland in 1877 and by 1880 she had become pregnant by him and the couple were wed in April of that year. Bland's infidelities (and subsequent out-of-wedlock children with other women) made their marriage a rocky one, but they managed to have four children and remained together until Bland's death in 1914. Nesbit then married Thomas "the Skipper" Tucker, captain of the Woolwich Ferry, in 1917 and remained with him for the rest of her life. Nesbit succumbed to lung cancer in 1924.Nesbit, who also helped found the left-wing Fabian Society and pushed for democratic socialist causes, was a popular and influential writer for her entire career and inspired many of the greatest children's authors of all time, including C.S. Lewis, P.L. Travers and J.K. Rowling. Her writing was not limited to children's books, however. Nesbit also wrote eleven adult novels, a number of short stories and no less than four collections of horror stories.Edith Nesbit is buried in the churchyard of St. Mary in the Marsh in Kent.

E. Nesbit Books

The House of Silence book cover

The House of Silence

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The Book of Dragons book cover

The Book of Dragons

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The Phoenix And The Carpet book cover

The Phoenix And The Carpet

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The Enchanted Castle book cover

The Enchanted Castle

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The Story Of The Amulet book cover

The Story Of The Amulet

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The Enchanted Castle book cover

The Enchanted Castle

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Grim Tales book cover

Grim Tales

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Beautiful Stories From Shakespeare book cover

Beautiful Stories From Shakespeare

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The Story Of The Treasure Seekers book cover

The Story Of The Treasure Seekers

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Five Children And It book cover

Five Children And It

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The Book of Dragons book cover

The Book of Dragons

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Five Children and It book cover

Five Children and It

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Five Children and It book cover

Five Children and It

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The Railway Children book cover

The Railway Children

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The Enchanted Castle book cover

The Enchanted Castle

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Harding’s Luck

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The House of Arden

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Wet Magic

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The Story of the Amulet book cover

The Story of the Amulet

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The Phoenix and the Carpet book cover

The Phoenix and the Carpet

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