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Biography of E(dith) NesbitName: E(dith) NesbitBirth Date: August 15, 1858 Death Date: May 4, 1924 Place of Birth: London, England Nationality: English Gender: Female Occupations: chilren's writer, novelist, poet, playwright, short story writer, editor, political activist E(dith) Nesbit Best known as the author of such children's novels as The Railway Children and The Story of the Treasure-Seekers, the English writer E. Nesbit (1858-1924) also authored fiction, drama, and poetry for adults. In addition she was active in political causes and together with her husband, Hubert Bland, the playwright Bernard Shaw, and others, founded the Fabian Society in England to further socialist aims.Early LifeNesbit was born August 15, 1858, in London to Sarah and John Collis Nesbit, a chemist who taught at an agricultural college in south London that had been established by his father. Nesbit's earliest years appear idyllic as she and her brothers, Arthur and Harry, were free to roam and play on the expansive grounds of the school. This period came to an abrupt end, however, with the sudden death of her father at age 43 in 1862. Nesbit's mother assumed the role of providing for her family, remaining connected …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Nesbit proved her ability to combine humor and sympathy, the personal and the universal. Not only does her popularity in this genre continue today, she also served as a major influence upon other writers for the young, including Edward Eager and C. S. Lewis." Further Reading Briggs, Julia, A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit, 1858-1924, New Amsterdam Books, 1991.Lurie, Alison, Writers for Children, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. Moore, Doris Langley-Levy, E. Nesbit: A Biography, Rev. Ed., Chilton Books, 1966.Nelson, Claudia, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 141: British Children's Writers, 1880-1914, edited by Laura M. Zaidman and Caroline C. Hunt, The Gale Group, 1994. Nesbit, E., Long Ago When I Was Young, Macdonald and Jane's, 1974. Streatfeild, Noel, Magic and the Magician: E. Nesbit and Her Children's Books, Abelard Schuman, 1958.Commonweal, November 5, 1999. MOSAIC X/2, Winter 1977. New York Review of Books, December 3, 1964. "Edith Nesbit and the Railway Children," http://www.imagix.dial.pipex.com (February 9, 2003). |