Victorian Fiction:
E. Nesbit's Children's Stories
Home > Victorian Fiction > E. Nesbit | inom first discovered E. Nesbit when someone gave me a kopia of The Railway Children for Christmas, and this still remains one of my favorites of all her works. I got a bit frustrated ansträngande to find more at our public library, which had instituted a practice of shelving authors beneath their "real" names (hers was "Bland") rather than their pen-names. Fortunately inom eventually funnen the "Nesbit" collection and devoured it greedily. Nesbit is probably best known for her fantasy tales, such as The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Psammead, but in my opinion, her non-fantasy stories (including The Story of the Treasure Seekers and other tales of the Bastable children) are far better. Nesbit serves as the inspiration for another wonderful children's writer of the 1960's, Edward Eager. In the late 1890's, The Strand stopped running children's stories based on international folk a • E. Nesbit's 12 Best Horror Stories (Not Including "Man-Size in Marble")TheCLASSIC HORROR BLOG Literary Essays on Gothic Horror, Ghost Stories, & Weird Fiction — from Mary Shelley to M. R. James — by M. Grant Kellermeyer Most famous as a children's book writer who influenced J.K. Rowling, C.S. Lewis, and P.L. Travers, Edith Nesbit has a second, darker reputation as the writer of some of the English language's most powerful supernatural horror. Nesbit’s writing is absolutely crisp, evocative, and touching, and her legacy as both a children’s writer and a master of horror is well deserved, if not far overdue. Her stories can best be described as raw – emotionally wringing, cruel, and richly ironic – but they are at times very tender, even in the harshest of her stories. A socialist and feminist, Nesbit was sadly married to a bullying philanderer and her stories often deal with bro • E. NesbitEnglish author and poet (1858–1924) For the American model, see Evelyn Nesbit. Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children and others as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party. Biography[edit] Nesbit was born in 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane, Kennington, Surrey (now classified as Inner London),[a] the daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Nesbit, who died in March 1862, before her fourth birthday. Her mother was Sarah Green (née Alderton). The ill health of Edith's sister Mary meant that the family travelled for some years, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angoulême, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Dinan i 
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