Edith Nesbit, 1858-1924
Biographical note
Edith Nesbit was born in London. She grew up in France, Germany, and Kent, and wrote over 60 books of fiction for children, including Five Children and It, The Wouldbegoods, and The Railway Children. She died in 1924 in New Romney, Kent, England.
Works
- The Pilot [1893]
- The Story of the Treasure-Seekers [1899]
- The Would-be-goods; illustrated by Reginald Bathurst Birch [1901]
- New Treasure Seekers ; or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune [1904]
- The Phoenix and the Carpet [1904]
- The Railway Children [1906]
- The Story of the Amulet [1906]
- The Enchanted Castle / illustrated by H. R. Millar [1907]
- The Three Mothers [1908]
- The House With No Address [1909]
- These Little Ones [1909]
- The Magic City / illustrated by H. R. Millar [1910]
- Dormant (Rose Royal) [1911]
- Wet Magic [1913]
- Five Children and It / illustrated by H. R. Millar
- Harding's luck / illustrated by H. R. Millar
- All Round the Year / E. Nesbit and Caris Brooke; illustrated by H. Bellingham Smith
- Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
- The Book of Dragons / illustrated by H. R. Millar; illustrated by H. Granville Fell
- In Homespun
- The Incomplete Amorist
- The Magic World / illustrated by H. R. Millar and Gerald Spencer Pryse
- Man and Maid
- Many Voices
- Oswald Bastable and Others / illustrated by C. E. Brock and H. R. Millar
- Pussy and Doggy Tales / illustrated by Lucy Kemp-Welch
- The Rainbow and the Rose
- Royal Children of English History / illustrated by Frances Brundage and May Bowley
- Wings and the Child ; or, the Building of Magic Cities / E. Nesbit; illustrated by George Barraud
