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E. Nesbit

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Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. [1]

85 relations: Adventure fiction, Angoulême, Arcachon, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, Bordeaux, Bradford, Brighton, C. S. Lewis, Chambers Harrap, Children's literature, Contemporary fantasy, Derbyshire, Diana Wynne Jones, Dieppe, Dinan, East Dean and Friston, Edward Eager, Eltham, Fabian Society, Fictional universe, Five Children and It, Four Children and It, George MacDonald, Gore Vidal, Greater London, Grove Park, Lewisham, Halstead, Kent, Hubert Bland, Inner London, J. K. Rowling, Jacqueline Wilson, John Clute, John Collis Nesbit, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, Kenneth Grahame, Kennington, Kent, Labour Party (UK), Lee, London, Lewis Carroll, Lewisham, London School of Economics, Marxism, Mary Poppins, Michael Moorcock, National Library of Australia, New Mills, New Romney, Noël Coward, ..., Noel Streatfeild, Oswald Barron, P. L. Travers, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Peter Kropotkin, Poitiers, Rouen, Social Democratic Federation, St Mary in the Marsh, St Mary's Bay, Kent, Steampunk, Telegraph & Argus, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Enchanted Castle, The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, The Girl's Own Paper, The Guardian, The House of Arden, The Magic City (novel), The Magic World, The Magician's Nephew, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Railway Children, The Railway Children (1970 film), The Story of the Amulet, The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Strand Magazine, Tonsil, Tours, Verse (poetry), Victorian era, Well Hall, William Morris, Woolwich, Woolwich Ferry. Expand index (35 more) »

Adventure fiction

Adventure fiction is fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement.

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Angoulême

Angoulême (Poitevin-Saintongeais: Engoulaeme; Engoleime) is a commune, the capital of the Charente department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France.

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Arcachon

Arcachon (Arcaishon in Gascon) is a commune in the southwestern French department of Gironde.

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Bagnères-de-Bigorre

Bagnères-de-Bigorre (Banhèras de Bigòrra) is a commune and subprefecture of the Hautes-Pyrénées Department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France.

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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a 1907 collection published by E. Nesbit with the intention of entertaining young readers and telling William Shakespeare's plays in a way they could be easily understood.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Occitan: Bordèu) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.

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Bradford

Bradford is in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, in the foothills of the Pennines west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield.

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Brighton

Brighton is a seaside resort on the south coast of England which is part of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, 47 miles (75 km) south of London.

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C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.

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Chambers Harrap

Chambers Harrap Publishers (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd) is a reference publisher formerly based in Edinburgh, Scotland, which held the property rights of the venerable W.R. Chambers Publishers and its competitor George G. Harrap and Company (founded: 1901).

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Contemporary fantasy

Contemporary fantasy, also known as modern fantasy or indigenous fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy, set in the present day or, more accurately, the time period of the maker.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.

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Diana Wynne Jones

Diana Wynne Jones (16 August 1934 – 26 March 2011) was a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults.

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Dieppe

Dieppe is a coastal community in the Arrondissement of Dieppe in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France.

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Dinan

Dinan is a walled Breton town and a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in northwestern France.

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East Dean and Friston

East Dean and Friston is a civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England.The two villages in the parish are in a dry valley on the South Downs - between Eastbourne three miles (4.8 km) to the east and Seaford an equal distance to the west.

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Edward Eager

Edward McMaken Eager (June 20, 1911 – October 23, 1964) was an American lyricist, dramatist, and writer of children's fiction.

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Eltham

Eltham is a district of south east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

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Fabian Society

The Fabian Society is a British socialist organization whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow.

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Fictional universe

A fictional universe is a self-consistent setting with events, and often other elements, that differ from the real world.

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Five Children and It

Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author E. Nesbit.

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Four Children and It

Four Children and It is a novel by author Jacqueline Wilson based on the 1902 book Five Children and It by E. Nesbit.

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George MacDonald

George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister.

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.

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Greater London

Greater London is a region of England which forms the administrative boundaries of London, as well as a county for the purposes of the lieutenancies.

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Grove Park, Lewisham

Grove Park is a district and electoral ward in south east London, England within the London Borough of Lewisham.

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Halstead, Kent

Halstead is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England.

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Hubert Bland

Hubert Bland (3 January 1855 – 14 April 1914) was the husband of Edith Nesbit and was known for being an infamous libertine, a journalist, an early English socialist, and one of the founders of the Fabian Society.

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Inner London

Inner London is the name for the group of London boroughs which form the interior part of Greater London and are surrounded by Outer London.

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J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling, ("rolling";Rowling, J.K. (16 February 2007).. Accio Quote (accio-quote.org). Retrieved 28 April 2008. born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film and television producer and screenwriter best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.

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Jacqueline Wilson

Dame Jacqueline Wilson (née Aitken; born 17 December 1945) is an English novelist who writes for children's literature.

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John Clute

John Frederick Clute (born 12 September 1940) is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction (also SF, sf) and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969.

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John Collis Nesbit

John Collis Nesbit (12 July 1818 – 30 March 1862) was an English agricultural chemist.

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Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is a branch line that served mills and villages in the Worth Valley and is now a heritage railway line in West Yorkshire, England.

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Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature.

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Kennington

Kennington is a district in south London, England.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Lee, London

Lee, also known as Lee Green, is a district of south east London, within the London Boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich.

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Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer.

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Lewisham

Lewisham is an area of south London, England, south-east of Charing Cross.

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London School of Economics

The London School of Economics (officially The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as LSE) is a public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London.

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Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

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Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins is a series of eight children's books written by P. L. Travers and published over the period 1934 to 1988.

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Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer and musician, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels.

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National Library of Australia

The National Library of Australia is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people." In 2012–13, the National Library collection comprised 6,496,772 items, and an additional of manuscript material.

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New Mills

New Mills is a town in Derbyshire, England, approximately south-east of Stockport and from Manchester.

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New Romney

New Romney is a small town in Kent, England, on the edge of Romney Marsh, an area of flat, rich agricultural land reclaimed from the sea after the harbour began to silt up.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Noel Streatfeild

Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE (24 December 1895 –11 September 1986), was an English author, best known for children's books including the "Shoes" books, which were not a series.

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Oswald Barron

Arthur Oswald Barron (3 January 1868 – 24 September 1939) was a journalist and scholar on heraldic and genealogical subjects.

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P. L. Travers

Pamela Lyndon Travers, OBE (born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-born British writer who spent most of her career in England.

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Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Pau is a commune on the northern edge of the Pyrenees, and capital of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Département in the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.

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Peter Kropotkin

Pyotr Alexeevich Kropotkin (Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин; December 9, 1842 – February 8, 1921) was a Russian activist, revolutionary, scientist and philosopher who advocated anarcho-communism.

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Poitiers

Poitiers is a city on the Clain river in west-central France.

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Rouen

Rouen (Frankish: Rodomo; Rotomagus, Rothomagus) is a city on the River Seine in the north of France.

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Social Democratic Federation

The Social Democratic Federation (SDF) was established as Britain's first organised socialist political party by H. M. Hyndman, and had its first meeting on 7 June 1881.

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St Mary in the Marsh

St Mary in the Marsh is a village near New Romney in Kent, England, situated in the heart of Romney Marsh in one of its least populated areas, but with New Romney just 3 miles away, there are plenty of amenities close by.

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St Mary's Bay, Kent

St Mary's Bay, also known as The Bay, is a coastal village in Kent, England.

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Steampunk

Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.

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Telegraph & Argus

The Telegraph & Argus is the daily newspaper for Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.

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The Chronicles of Narnia

The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis.

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The Enchanted Castle

The Enchanted Castle is a children's fantasy novel by Edith Nesbit first published in 1907.

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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is an English language reference work on science fiction, first published in 1979.

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The Girl's Own Paper

The Girl's Own Paper (G.O.P.)was a British story paper catering to girls and young women, published from 1880 until 1956.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The House of Arden

The House of Arden is a novel for children, written in 1908 by English author Edith Nesbit.

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The Magic City (novel)

The Magic City is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, first published in 1910.

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The Magic World

The Magic World is an influential collection of twelve short stories by E. Nesbit.

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The Magician's Nephew

The Magician's Nephew is a high fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Bodley Head in 1955.

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The Phoenix and the Carpet

The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written by E. Nesbit and first published in 1904.

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The Railway Children

The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906.

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The Railway Children (1970 film)

The Railway Children is a 1970 British drama film based on the novel of the same name by E. Nesbit.

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The Story of the Amulet

The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by English author Edith Nesbit.

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The Story of the Treasure Seekers

The Story of the Treasure Seekers is a novel by E. Nesbit.

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The Strand Magazine

The Strand Magazine was a monthly magazine founded by George Newnes, composed of short fiction and general interest articles.

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Tonsil

Tonsils are collections of lymphoid tissue facing into the aerodigestive tract.

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Tours

Tours is a city located in the centre-west of France.

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Verse (poetry)

In the countable sense, a verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Well Hall

Well Hall is a place to the north of Eltham in the Royal Borough of Greenwich in southeast London, England, with no present formal boundaries and located east-southeast of Charing Cross.

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William Morris

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist.

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Woolwich

Woolwich is a district of south-east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

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Woolwich Ferry

The Woolwich Ferry is a free vehicle ferry service across the River Thames in East London, connecting Woolwich to the south with North Woolwich to the north.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Nesbit

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