Surname: Nesbit Forename(s): Edith b. 15 August 1858. d. 4 May 1924. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Prolific novelist, poet, journalist, and children’s writer. Alternative signature:
“E. Nesbit.” Married writer Hubert Bland on 22 April 1880 then, after his death, Thomas
Tucker on 20 February 1917. Nesbit was a socialist and was one of the founders, with
Bland, of the Fabian Society. Nesbit and Bland also co-edited the Fabian Society’s
journal Today. Converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism at the turn of the twentieth century.
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