E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit was born in 1858 in Kennington, Surrey (now part of London). Her father, an agricultural chemist, died when she was three, and the family moved often in England, France and Germany for the health of her sister. In 1880 she married Hubert Bland, a bank clerk and journalist, and the couple helped found the Fabian Society, a socialist organization, in 1884. To support the family she wrote poems, stories and articles, publishing under the name E. Nesbit. She became famous for children's books, beginning with The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899), about the Bastable children. Five Children and It (1902) tells of children who find a grumpy sand fairy that grants wishes that go wrong, and The Railway Children (1906) follows three children whose father is wrongly imprisoned, living near a railway line in Yorkshire. Her lively, realistic children, who speak in their own voices, influenced many later writers of children's fantasy. She died in Kent in 1924.

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