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
Friends, Associates Rosamund Marriott Watson
She forged friendships with other women writers, including Mona Caird , E. Nesbit , Mathilde Blind , Amy Levy , and Alice Meynell . She was also a friend of William Sharp , Austin Dobson
Intertextuality and Influence Ali Smith
As a tribute to institutions of shared literacy and collective engagement, many of the stories here involve reading within and through the public sphere. Two are dedicated to the friendship between D. H. Lawrence and...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Berta Ruck
After finishing art school, BR began contributing illustrations and short stories to magazines. Her early publications, not as a writer but as an illustrator, appeared in The Idler in 1903 and in the The Jabberwock...
Intertextuality and Influence J. K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling wrote her first story at the age of six: Rabbit, inspired by Richard Scarry . The Seven Cursed Diamonds, also written at primary school, owed more to E. Nesbit . She...
Literary responses Rosamund Marriott Watson
William Archer included RMW alongside A. E. Housman , Rudyard Kipling , Alice Meynell , E. Nesbit , and William Butler Yeats in Poets of the Younger Generation (1902).
Archer, William. Poets of the Younger Generation. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1902.
vii-viii
Her diction is pure, he...
Literary responses Henrietta Euphemia Tindal
After languishing for more than a century, HET 's work has reappeared in the anthology of Victorian women poets edited by Angela Leighton and Margaret Reynolds .Leighton compares her unsentimenal poems on childbirth and motherhood...
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, 1987.
392
Philip Larkin included both of these among the four of Cornford's poems that he chose...
Literary responses Lady Margaret Sackville
Whitney Womack has recently written that LMS 's war poetry should be read alongside the war poetry of Rupert Brooke , Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , Siegfried Sassoon , and Isaac Rosenberg , as...
Literary responses Charlotte Yonge
The Daisy Chain's popularity was long-lasting, though not so intense as that of The Heir of Redclyffe. Jane Austen 's nephew James Austen-Leigh compared it to the work of Austen and Scott ...
Literary responses Noel Streatfeild
Reviewers seem to have found these books hard to praise. Benny Green in The Spectator described the first Maitland book as preposterous and antiquated, but mysteriously readable and affecting.
qtd. in
Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne, 1994.
127
Green's disparaging use of the...
Literary responses Hesba Stretton
This work, HS 's greatest success, helped establish her name as a byword for Evangelical fiction for children and the newly literate.
Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998.
190: 312
Perhaps the most famous response to Jessica's First Prayer is that...
Material Conditions of Writing Noel Streatfeild
After twenty years of success as a writer for children, NS published a life and study of another renowned writer of children's books, Edith Nesbit : Magic and the Magician.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Occupation Constance Smedley
Since the Langham Place Group had provided a social space for women in 1860, several organizations had already challenged the flourishing institution of men's clubs. The Lyceum Club came on the scene at a time...
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...

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Texts

Nesbit, E., and A. L. Kellar. The Red House. Methuen, 1902.
Nesbit, E. The Secret of Kyriels. Hurst and Blackett, 1899.
Nesbit, E., and H. R. Millar. The Story of the Amulet. T. Fisher Unwin, 1906.
Nesbit, E. et al. The Story of the Treasure Seekers. T. Fisher Unwin; Frederick A. Stokes, 1899.
Nesbit, E., and H. R. Millar. The Wonderful Garden. Macmillan, 1911.
Nesbit, E., and Reginald B. Birch. The Wouldbegoods. Harper and Brothers, 1901.
Nesbit, E., and Dorothy Boulger. Twice Four. Griffith and Farran, 1891.
Nesbit, E., and H. R. Millar. Wet Magic. T. Werner Laurie, 1913.
Nesbit, E., and George Barraud. Wings and the Child. Hodder and Stoughton, 1913.