Person
Edith Nesbit
Writing
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- Aug 15, 1858
- Died
- May 4, 1924
- From
- London, England, United Kingdom
Edith Nesbit (15 August 1858 — 4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published books for children and others as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than sixty such books. Nesbit was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party. Among her best-known work include The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899), Five Children and It (1902), The Phoenix and the Cabinet (1904), and The Railway Children (1906).
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Credits
The Railway Children Return
The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet
The Sand Fairy
Five Children and It
The Treasure Seekers
The Mystery of the Disappearing Schoolgirls
The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Railway Children
The Railway Children
The Railway Children
The Railway Children
Lemmi and the Bookworms
Onegai! Samia-don
The Sand Creature
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Five Children and It
The Return of the Psammead
The Phoenix and the Carpet