E. Nesbit

(August 15, 1858 – May 4, 1924)

Edith Nesbit, 1903. “Miss N,” photoportrait by Gertrude Käsebier.

Edith Nesbit (married name Bland) was a prolific, 19th-century, British, children's fantasy author, best remembered for her Psammead trilogy, which begins with Five Children and It (1902).

Biographies include Magic and the Magician: E. Nesbit and her Children's Books by Noel Streatfeild (1958) and E. Nesbit: A Biography by Doris Langley Moore (1967).

• Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
• The Edith Nesbit Society.
• “The Writing of E. Nesbit” by Gore Vidal, The New York Review, December 3, 1964.

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 2018 —Readercon 29 (posthumous)

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Person

1858—1924

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