![]() ![]() ![]() After fifteen years of literary hack work, in which she produced some thirty-three books, she hit her stride with the writing of 'The Treasure Seekers', the first of the stories about the irrepressible Bastable children. She began to write poems, short stories, and recitiations, and made hand painted Christmas cards. When Bland, while ill, was defrauded by a business partner, Edith Nesbit was forced to earn the family's living. He took the chair at the first meeting of the Fabian Society and both were active in the Fabian movement. Edith Nesbit married Hubert Bland, a young journalist and enthusiastic Socialist, in 1880. Also, the entire book has been revised and relevant material that either had to be left out originally, or has been discovered since, has been added. ![]() Nesbit's contemporaries or members of her family were still alive. Langley Moore has written a new introduction to the present edition, telling a number of things that had to be omitted from the original work, when so many of E. Nesbit (1858-1924), whose books for children have delighted readers young and old, is a literary event of major importance. "Publication of this first biography ever written about E. ![]()
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