If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.

Gautama Buddha, 563 – 483
Edith Nesbit biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Edith Nesbit

Author Name:

Edith Nesbit

Born As:

Other Names:

Married name Edith Bland

Born:

1858

Died:

1924




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Children's writer                          
Selected works:

The Bastables Series:

The Story of the Treasure Seekers - 1899
The Wouldbegoods - 1901
The New Treasure Seekers - 1904
Oswald Bastable And Others - 1905
Complete History of Bastable Family - 1928

Psammead Series:

Five Children and It - 1902
The Phoenix and the Carpet - 1904
The Story of the Amulet - 1906

House of Arden Series:

The House of Arden - 1908
Harding's Luck - 1909

Others:

Pussy and Doggy Tales - 1885
All Round the Year - 1885
Many Voices - 1885
The Rainbow and the Rose - 1885
The Prophet's Mantle - 1885
Something Wrong - 1886
Grim Tales - 1893
The Pilot -1893
Miss Mischief - 1894
The Butler in Bohemia - 1894
Tales of the Clock - 1895
In Homespun - 1896
Tales Told in Twilight - 1897
The Book of Dogs - 1898
The Children's Shakespeare - 1897
Royal Children of English History - 1897
The Secret of the Kyriels - 1899
The Book of Dragons - 1900
Nine Unlikely Tales - 1901
Thirteen Ways Home - 1901
The Red House - 1902
The Revolt of the Toys - 1902
Edith Nesbit's Tales of Terror - 1902
In the Dark: Tales of Terror - 1902
The Rainbow Queen - 1903
Playtime Stories - 1903
The Literary Sense - 1903
The Story of Five Rebellious Dolls - 1904
Cat Tales - 1904
Pug Peter, King of Mouseland - 1905
The Railway Children - 1906
The Incomplete Amorist - 1906
Man and Maid - 1906
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - 1907
The Enchanted Castle - 1907
The Old Nursery Stories - 1908
The Three Mothers - 1908
The House With No Address - 1909
These Little Ones - 1909
Daphne in Fitzroy Street - 1909
Salome and the Head - 1909
Fear - 1910
The Magic City - 1910
Dormant aka Rose Royal - 1911
The Wonderful Garden - 1911
The Magic World - 1912
Wet Magic - 1913
The Incredible Honeymoon - 1921
The Lark - 1922
To the Adventurous - 1923
Five of Us and Madeline - 1925

Poetry:

1887 Spring Songs and Sketches - 1887
1894 A Pomander Of Verse - 1894
1899 Villegiature - 1899

Anthologies:

Before Armageddon: An Anthology of Victorian and Edwardian Imaginative Fiction Published Before 1914 - 1976.                          
Mother 
Father John Collis Nesbit
Husband Hubert Bland, three children.
Hubert Bland had another two children with Alice Hoatson whom Nesbit raised as her own.                          
A political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a precursor to the modern Labour Party.                          
Published under the androgynous name of E. Nesbit.