E. Nesbit
AuthorBio
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
E NesbitThe Book of Dragons
E. NesbitThe Phoenix And The Carpet
E. NesbitThe Enchanted Castle
E. NesbitThe Story Of The Amulet
E. NesbitThe Enchanted Castle
E. NesbitGrim Tales
E. NesbitBeautiful Stories From Shakespeare
E. NesbitThe Story Of The Treasure Seekers
E. NesbitFive Children And It
E. NesbitThe Book of Dragons
E. NesbitFive Children and It
E. NesbitFive Children and It
E. NesbitThe Railway Children
E. NesbitThe Enchanted Castle
E. NesbitHarding’s Luck
E. NesbitThe House of Arden
E. NesbitWet Magic
E. NesbitThe Story of the Amulet
E. NesbitThe Phoenix and the Carpet
E. Nesbit