1. EDITH NESBIT

2. Edith Nesbit was born on 15 August 1858 in Kennington, Surrey (now part of Greater London), England.
After the sudden death of her father, she lived in various parts of the country and moved to France and Germany, where Edith attended school.
When Nesbit was 17, the family moved again, this time back to London, living variously in different parts of South East London

3. In 1871 the Nesbits settled at Halstead Hall in Kent, England
19-year-old Nesbit met bank clerk Hubert Bland in On 22 April 1880 Edith married Hubert Bland.
Their children were Paul Bland (1880–1940), Iris Bland ( s); and Fabian Bland (1885–1900), who died aged 15 after a tonsil operation.

4. After Hubert died in 1914, Edith married Thomas Tucker, a ship's engineer on the Woolwich Ferry
She was a guest speaker at the London School of Economics.
Suffering from lung cancer, probably a result of her heavy smoking, she died in 1924 at New Romney, Kent, and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary in the Marsh.

5. Some of Nesbit's additional works:
The Prophet's Mantle (1885),
Something Wrong (1886)
The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899)
The Wouldbegoods (1901)
The Red House (1902)
Five Children and It (1902)
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)
The New Treasurer-Seekers (1904)
The Amulet (1906)
The Enchanted Castle (1907)
The Magic World (1912)
The Railway Children (1906) has inspired television and film adaptations.