Publisher's Synopsis
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; August 15, 1858 - May 4, 1924) was an English author and poet; She published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit.He wrote or collaborated in more than 60 books of children's literature. He was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organization that later joined the Labor Party.Nesbit was born in 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane in Kennington, Surrey (now classified as Inner London), daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Nesbit, who died in March 1862, before his fourth birthday. His sister's poor health Mary meant that the family traveled for some years, living in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angoulême, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagnères-de-Bigorre and Dinanen Brittany), Spain and Germany, before settling for three years at Halstead Hall in Halstead in northwestern Kent, a place that later inspired The Railway Children (this distinction has also been claimed by the city of New Mills in Derbyshire).When Nesbit was seventeen, the family moved back to London, living in southeast London in Eltham, Elswick Road in Lewisham, Grove Park and Lee.
