E. Nesbit

Undated photograph of Edith Nesbit by an unknown photographer.

Edith Nesbit (August 15, 1858 - May 4, 1924) was a prolific British author whose works include novels, short stories, poems and non-fiction. She is best known for her children's books which she wrote as E. Nesbit. Her most famous children's novels are Five Children and It (1902) and The Railway Children (1906). Nesbit also used the pseudonym Fabian Bland ("Bland" being her married name).

Nesbit was also a political activist and one of the co-founders of the socialist Fabian Society, an organization that is now affiliated with the British Labour Party.

List of works[]

Children's novels[]

Bastable series

1899 The Story of the Treasure Seekers
1901 The Wouldbegoods
1904 New Treasure Seekers

Psammead series

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

House of Arden series

1908 The House of Arden
1909 Harding's Luck

Other children's novels

1906 The Railway Children
1907 The Enchanted Castle
1910 The Magic City
1911 The Wonderful Garden
1913 Wet Magic

Stories and storybooks for children[]

1887 The Pixies Garden
1891 "The Pilot"
1892 Father Christmas: The Children's Casket of Pictures
1894 Miss Mischief
1895 Tick Tock, Tales of the Clock
1895 Pussy cat
1895 Doggy Tales
1896 The Prince, Two Mice and Some Kitchen-Maids. Father Christmas: The Children's Treasury of Pictures and Stories (1892)
1897 The Children's Shakespeare
1897 Royal Children of English History
1897 Tales Told in the Twilight (bedtime stories by several writers)
1898 The Book of Dogs
1899 Pussy and Doggy Tales
1901 The Book of Dragons
1901 Nine Unlikely Tales
1902 The Revolt of the Toys
1903 The Rainbow Queen and Other Stories
1903 Playtime Stories
1904 The Story of Five Rebellious Dolls
1904 Cat Tales (co-written with her daughter Rosamund E. Nesbit Bland)
1905 Oswald Bastable and Others
1905 Pug Peter, King of Mouseland
1907 Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
1908 The Old Nursery Stories
1912 The Magic World

Novels for adults[]

As Fabian Bland

The Prophet's Mantle. Serialized, Weekly Dispatch, August 3 to December 14, 1884, published 1889
The Hour before Day. Serialized, Weekly Dispatch, 1885
Something Wrong. Serialized, Weekly Dispatch, March 7 to July 4, 1886
The Marden Mystery (1896)

As E Nesbit

1893 Her Marriage Lines. Serialized, Weekly Dispatch, 1893
1898 The Secret of Kyriels
1902 The Red House
1906 The Incomplete Amorist
1909 Salome and the Head (also published as The House with No Address)
1909 Daphne in Fitzroy Street
1911 Dormant (published as Rose Royal in the United States)
1916 The Incredible Honeymoon
1922 The Lark

Short stories for adults[]

As Fabian Bland

"Psychical Research". Longman's Magazine, December 1884
"The Fabric of a Vision". Argosy, March 1885
"An Angel Unawares". Weekly Dispatch, August 9, 1885
"Desperate Conspirator". Weekly Dispatch, May 15, 1887
"A Pot of Money". Weekly Dispatch, August 21, 1887
"Christmas Roses". Weekly Dispatch, December 25, 1887
"High Social Position". Weekly Dispatch, July 8, 1888
"Mind and Money". Weekly Dispatch, September 16, 1888
"Getting into Society". Weekly Dispatch, September 30, 1888
"A Drama of Exile". Weekly Dispatch, October 21, 1888
"A Pious Fraud". Weekly Dispatch, November 11, 1888
"Her First Appearance". Weekly Dispatch, December 16, 1888
"Which Wins?" Murray's Magazine, December 1888
"Only a Joke". Longman's Magazine, August 1889
"The Golden Girl". Weekly Dispatch, December 21, 1890

As E Nesbit

"Uncle Abraham's Romance". Illustrated London News, September 26, 1891
"The Ebony Frame". Longman's Magazine, October 1891
"Hurst of Hurstcote", 1893
"The Butler in Bohemia" (co-written with Oswald Barron), 1894
"A Strayed Sheep". Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal, June 2, 1894 (co-written with Oswald Barron)
"The Secret of Monsieur Roche Aymon". Atalanta Magazine, October 1894 (co-written with Oswald Barron)
"The Letter in Brown Ink". Windsor Magazine, August 1899
"'Thirteen Ways Home", 1901
"The Third Drug", Strand Magazine, February 1908, as by E. Bland. Also reprinted in anthologies as "The Three Drugs"
"These Little Ones", 1909
"The Aunt and the Editor". North Star and Farmers' Chronicle, June 15, 1909
"To the Adventurous", 1923

Short story collections for adults[]

Grim Tales (horror stories), 1893
- "The Ebony Frame", "John Charrington's Wedding", "Uncle Abraham's Romance", "The Mystery of the Semi-Detached", "From the Dead", "Man-Size in Marble", "The Mass for the Dead"
Something Wrong (horror stories), 1893
In Homespun (10 stories "written in an English dialect" of South Kent and Sussex), 1896
The Literary Sense (18 stories), 1903
Man and Maid (10 stories), 1906 (some supernatural stories)
Fear (horror stories), 1910
Collected Supernatural Stories, 2000
- "Dormant" ("Rose Royal"), "Man-Size in Marble", "The Detective", "No. 17", "John Charrington's Wedding", "The Blue Rose", "The Haunted House", "The House With No Address" ("Salome and the Head"), "The Haunted Inheritance", "The House of Silence", "The Letter in Brown Ink", "The Shadow", "The New Samson", "The Pavilion"
From the Dead: The Complete Weird Stories of E Nesbit, 2005
- "Introduction" (by S. T. Joshi), "John Charrington's Wedding", "The Ebony Frame", "The Mass for the Dead", "From the Dead", "Uncle Abraham's Romance", "The Mystery of the Semi-Detached", "Man-Size in Marble", "Hurst of Hurstcote", "The Power of Darkness", "The Shadow", "The Head", "The Three Drugs", "In the Dark", "The New Samson", "Number 17", "The Five Senses", "The Violet Car", "The Haunted House", "The Pavilion", "From My School-Days","In the Dark", "The Mummies at Bordeaux"
The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror', 2006
- "Man-Size in Marble", "Uncle Abraham's Romance", "From the Dead", "The Three Drugs", "The Violet Car", "John Charrington's Wedding", "The Pavilion", "Hurst of Hurstcote", "In the Dark", "The Head", "The Mystery of the Semi-detached", "The Ebony Frame", "The Five Senses", "The Shadow", "The Power of Darkness", "The Haunted Inheritance", "The Letter in Brown Ink", "The House of Silence", "The Haunted House", "The Detective"

Poetry[]

"A Lovers' Petition". Good Words, August 17, 1881
"Absolution". Longman's Magazine, August 1882
"Possibilities". Argosy, July 1884
"Until the Dawn". Justice, February 21, 1885
"Socialist Spring Song". Today, June 1885
"The Dead to the Living". Gentleman's Magazine
"Waiting". Justice, July 1885
"Two Voices". Justice, August 1885
"1857-1885". Justice, August 22, 1885
"The Wife of All Ages". Justice, September 18, 1885
"The Time of Roses", undated (circa 1890)
1886 "Lays and Legends"
1887 "The Lily and the Cross"
1887 "Justice for Ireland!". Warminster Gazette, March 12, 1887
1887 "The Ballad of Ferencz Renyi: Hungary, 1848". Longman's Magazine, April 1887
1887 "The Message of June". Longman's Magazine, June 1887
1887 "The Last Envoy"
1887 "The Star of Bethlehem"
1887 "Devotional Verses"
1888 "The Better Part, and Other Poems"
1888 "Landscape and Song"
1888 "The Message of the Dove"
1888 "All Round the Year"
1888 "Leaves of Life"
1889 "Corals and Sea Songs"
1890 "Songs of Two Seasons"
1892 "Sweet Lavender"
1892 "Lays and Legends", 2nd ed.
1895 "Rose Leaves"
1895 "A Pomander of Verse"
1898 "Songs of Love and Empire"
1901 "To Wish You Every Joy"
1905 "The Rainbow and the Rose"
1908 "Jesus in London"
1883–1908 "Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism"
1911 "Ballads and Verses of the Spiritual Life"
1912 "Garden Poems"
1915 "Prayer in Time or War"
1922 "Many Voices"

Non-fiction[]

"Women and Socialism: from the Middle-Class Point of View". Justice, April 4 and April 11, 1885
"Women and Socialism: A Working Woman's Point of View". Justice, April 25, 1885
Wings and the Child, or The Building of Magic Cities, 1913
Long Ago When I Was Young (First published as "My School-Days: Memories of Childhood" in The Girl's Own Paper between October 1896 and September 1897. Published in book form in 1966)