Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later connected to the Labour Party. Edith Nesbit was born in Kennington, Surrey, the daughter of agricultural chemist and schoolmaster John Collis Nesbit. The death of her father when she was four and the continuing ill health of her sister meant that Nesbit had a transitory childhood, her family moving across Europe in search of healthy climates only to return to England for financial reasons. Nesbit therefore spent her childhood attaining an education from whatever sources were available—local grammars, the occasional boarding school but mainly through reading. At 17 her family finally settled in London and aged 19, Nesbit met Hubert Bland, a political activist and writer. They became lovers and when Nesbit found she was pregnant they became engaged, marrying in April 1880. After this scandalous (for Victorian society) beginning, the marriage would be an unconventional one. Initially, the couple lived separately—Nesbit with her family and Bland with his mother and her live-in companion Maggie Doran. Initially, Edith Nesbit books were novels meant for adults, including The Prophet's Mantle (1885) and The Marden Mystery (1896) about the early days of the socialist movement. Written under the pen name of her third child 'Fabian Bland', these books were not successful. Nesbit generated an income for the family by lecturing around the country on socialism and through her journalism (she was editor of the Fabian Society's journal, Today). In 1899 she had published The Adventures of the Treasure Seekers to great acclaim.
Series
Books
The Mystery of the Semi-Detached
1893
The Enchanted Castle
1907
The Ebony Frame
1893
My School Days
1897
Classic Horror Stories
2015
Melisande
1901
The Book of Beasts
1901
Whereyouwanttogoto
1993
Five Children and It
1902
The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It
1902
Victorian Fairy Tales
2014
The Story of the Amulet
1906
The Lark
1922
The Last of the Dragons
1988
Shakespeare's Stories for Young Readers
2006
Hurst of Hurstcote
1893
John Charrington's Wedding and Other Stories
1893
Royal Children of English History
2009
All Round the Year
2007
The Incomplete Amorist
1906
Lionel and the Book of Beasts
2002
Number 17
2014
The Incredible Honeymoon
1916
Fairy Tales for Young Readers
By the Author of Shakespeare's Stories for Young Readers
1975
Oswald Bastable and Others
1905
The Best of Shakespeare
Retellings of 10 Classic Plays
1897
The Wonderful Garden
1911
Shakespeare Retold
2016
The Second Macabre Megapack
2013
The Power of Darkness
2006
Spirits of the Season
Christmas Hauntings
2019
The Conscience Pudding
1899
Edith Nesbit
The Complete Supernatural Stories
2019
The House of Arden
1908
Wings and the Child
Or, The Building of Magic Cities
1913
Harding's Luck
1909
The Book of Dragons
1899
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1904
20 Masterpieces of Fantasy Fiction Vol. 1
Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Tarzan of the Apes......
2017
The Princess and the Cat
2006
Grim Tales
1893
The Railway Children
1906
The Red House
1902
Edith Nesbit Ultimate Collection
20 Novels & 200+ Short Stories, Tales for Children & Poems
2016
Poems for a World Gone to Sh*t
2018
Reinas del abismo. Cuentos fantasmales de las maestras de lo inquietante
2020
In Homespun
1896
Complete Novels of E. Nesbit
2013
The Dragon Tamers
2013
Колір зла
1987
Last of the Dragons and Some Others
1899
New Treasure Seekers
1904
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
1899
Nine Unlikely Tales for Children
1901
The Violet Car
1910
In the Dark
1988
The Children's Shakespeare
2004
Iz mrtvih
1893
John Charrington's Wedding
1891
Cuentos de amor victorianos
2006
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children
1907
The Complete Book of Dragons
1972
The Big Book of the Masters of Horror
120+ authors and 1000+ stories
2018
The Cockatoucan
1901
The Three Drugs
1908
Jack and the Beanstalk
2006
Long Ago When I Was Young
1966
7 Books in 1
The Railway Children, Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Amulet, The Story of the Treasure-Seekers, The Would-Be-Goods, and The Enchanted Castle
2004
Ghost Stories
2012
Man-Size in Marble
1886
Tales from the Dead of Night
Thirteen Classic Ghost Stories
2013
Horror Stories
2016
The Wouldbegoods
1901
Classic Tales of Hauntings
2012
The Town in the Library
1901
The Magic World
1912
The Magic City
1910
Wet Magic
1913
Ice Dragon
1901
