33 E. Nesbit to Ada Breakell, 1884, Edith Nesbit Archive.
34 Fanny Woodcock in an interview with Doris Langley Moore, 126.
35 Jepson, Memories of an Edwardian and Neo-Georgian, 100.
CHAPTER 13
1 E. Nesbit, The Incredible Honeymoon, 292.
2 E. Nesbit, The New Treasure Seekers, 238.
3 Ibid., 214.
4 A. D. Innes, “Something Wrong. By E. Nesbit,” The Spectator, November 18, 1893, 37.
5 E. Nesbit, The House of Arden (Harmondsworth: Puffin, 1986), 76.
6 E. Nesbit, Oswald Bastable and Others (London: Weels Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd., 1905), 35.
7 E. Nesbit, “The Millionairess,” Man and Maid (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906), 103–33.
8 E. Nesbit, “Rack and Thumbscrew,” in Man and Maid, 87.
9 Jepson, Memories of an Edwardian and Neo-Georgian, 142.
10 H. G. Wells, Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922), 16.
11 G. Law, Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2000), 111.
12 E. Nesbit, My School Days, 62.
13 E. Nesbit, The Red House, 15.
14 Sidney Webb to Beatrice Webb, April 9, 1900, quoted in Norman MacKenzie, ed., The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, vol. 2: Partnership 1892–1912 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 128.
15 Book News, vol. 21, September 1902–August 1903, 381.
16 W. L. Alden, “Mr. Alden’s Views,” New York Times, Saturday, March 7, 1903, 154.
17 Quoted in the Horn Book Magazine (Boston: Horn Books, 1945).
18 Jepson, Memories of an Edwardian and Neo-Georgian, 26.
19 Andrew Lang to E. Nesbit, February 1903, quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 199.
20 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography (New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1935), 211.
21 Ibid., 268. Hubert wrote an exceptionally harsh review of her book Women and Economics for the Manchester Chronicle under the heading “A Sane World in a Mad Controversy.”
22 E. Nesbit, “Fortunatus Rex and Co.,” in Nine Unlikely Tales, 208.
23 E. Nesbit, Five Children and It, 1.
24 S. Bedson, “Obituary: John Oliver Wentworth Bland (Born 6th October 1899. Died 10th May 1946),” Journal of Pathology, vol. 59, issue 4, October 1947, 716–21.
25 Taylor, E. Nesbit in Eltham, 6.
26 Interview between Laurence Housman and Doris Langley Moore, transcript held in the Edith Nesbit Archive.
27 Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook’s Hill (Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1906), 253.
28 Reproduced in Benjamin F. Fisher, “The Critical Reception of A Shropshire Lad” in Alan W. Holden and J. Roy Birch, eds., A.E. Housman: A Reassessment (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999), 22; Edith reviewed A. E. Housman’s poetry in the National Observer: “the dominant characteristic of Mr Housman’s work is dignified simplicity . . . of expression. . . . Here is no struggle for effect; only achievement without apparent effort. And that the effort was, there is only the excellence of the result to prove.”
29 E. Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers, 57–61.
30 Ibid., 262.
31 Reprinted in the Kipling Journal, vol. XV, no. 86, July 1948, 13.
32 Ibid.
33 Hubert Bland, “The Decadance of Rudyard Kipling,” Essays by Hubert Bland,33–53.
CHAPTER 14
1 This information is included in the Alice Hoatson to Doris Langley Moore, July 4, 1932, Edith Nesbit Archive.
2 Hubert Bland, Letters to a Daughter, 4.
3 E. Nesbit, “The Criminal,” The Neolith, issue 1, 1907.
4 Ibid.
5 E. Nesbit, The Wouldbegoods, 62.
6 E. Nesbit, Harding’s Luck (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1910), 196–97.
7 E. Nesbit, The Wouldbegoods, 185 and 1.
8 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth (London: Hutchinson, 1935), 147.
9 Berta Ruck, A Smile for the Past (London: Hutchinson, 1959), 118.
10 E. Nesbit, The Railway Children, 204–5.
11 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 146.
12 “Short Stories,” The Athenaeum, January 4, 1902.
13 E. Nesbit, Five Children and It, 6.
14 Reproduced in the Totnes Weekly Times, Saturday, October 14, 1899, 5.
15 “Safety Cheques,” Belfast Newsletter, Thursday, March 24, 1881, 8.
16 Journal of Science, Volume IV (Third Series), June 1882, 35–52.
17 “Painting the Lily,” The Globe, Wednesday, July 5, 1882, 1.
18 “Chemicals and Flowers,” The Globe, Thursday, September 4, 1913, 6.
19 E. Nesbit, The Lark (London: Hutchinson, 1922), 98 and 11.
20 E. Nesbit, The Incredible Honeymoon, 192.
21 E. Nesbit to the Reverend C. H. Grinling, May 22, 1896, Edith Nesbit Archive. Grinling was also a Labour activist and Editor of The Pioneer.
22 Jepson, Memories of an Edwardian and Neo-Georgian, 24.
23 Quoted in Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, The Life of H. G. Wells: The Time Traveller (London: Hogarth Press, 1987), 175.
24 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 206.
25 Ibid.
26 Ada Chesterton, The Chestertons, 58.
27 Ibid.
28 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 147.
29 Ruck, A Smile for the Past, 115.
30 Berta Ruck to Doris Langley Moore, January 23, 1932, Edith Nesbit Archive.
31 Account given to Doris Langley Moore by Nina Griffith, Edith Nesbit Archive.
32 Ruck, A Smile for the Past, 115.
33 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 146.
34 Taylor, E. Nesbit in Eltham, 9.
35 Arthur Ransome and Rupert Hart-Davis, The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome (London: Jonathan Cape, 1976), 100.
36 “Personal,” Hackney and Kingsland Gazette, Wednesday, October 31, 1888, 3.
37 Cecil Chesterton, Introduction to Essays by Hubert Bland, xi.
38 Sean O’Casey, Drums Under the Window (New York: Macmillan, 1960), 8.
39 May, John Lane and the Nineties, 82.
40 A. J. A. Symons, The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography (New York: Macmillan, 1934), 108.
41 Clarence A. Andrews, “A Baron Corvo Exhibit,” Books at Iowa 1, 1964, 18–27.
42 Symons, The Quest for Corvo, 255.
43 Account given to Doris Langley Moore by Nina Griffith, Edith Nesbit Archive.
44 Doran, M. and Co., Dyers, etc. are listed as operating from 31 High Street, Beckenham in the Beckenham Directory for 1898, printed and published by T. W. Thornton. In 1901, Maggie, “dyer and cleaner,” was registered at that address as head of household. She lived with her brother Tom, a photographer who would later become a dyer and cleaner (probably taking over from Maggie), his wife, Jane, their children Hubert (15) and Samuel (13), and her sister’s child Edith (8), daughter of Edith Doran. Information on Tom Doran can be found at www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/BTNDoranF.htm (accessed September 10, 2017).
45 Jepson, Memories of an Edwardian and Neo-Georgian, 125.
46 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 147.
47 E. Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle, 176–77.
48 E. Nesbit, The New Treasure Seekers, 85.
49 Kathleen Waters to Doris Langley Moore, undated, Edith Nesbit Archive.
CHAPTER 15
1 Ada Chesterton, The Chestertons, 58.
2 Jepson, Memories of an Edwardian and Neo-Georgian, 48.
3 Douglas Kennedy to Doris Langley Moore, February 13, 1933, Edith Nesbit Archive.
4 “Authoress of Our Next Serial,” London Daily News, Friday, March 8, 1907, 11. This magazine claims that Old and Young had published a fairy tale by her.
5 Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, May 1914, vol. XCIII, no. 557, January–June 1914, 513.
6 Gloucester Journal, Saturday, August 15, 1908, 8.
7 Sandra Kemp, C
harlotte Mitchell, and David Trotter, “Dorothea Deakin,” Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 92.
8 Hampstead and Highgate Express, Saturday, December 1, 1906, 5. The exhibition was held in the premises of Messrs Cox and Co., 4 High Street.
9 “Writers of the Day,” The Writer (Boston), vol. 20, 1908, 57.
10 The catalogue is online at https://archive.org/stream/parissalon1904ie00unse#page/157/mode/2up/search/Rosamund (accessed December 1, 2017).
11 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 75.
12 Ibid., 142.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid. 143.
15 “The Joy of Laughter,” Thanet Advertiser, Tuesday, May 16, 1933, 4.
16 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 147.
17 Ibid., 145.
18 Ibid., 144.
19 Ibid., 144–45.
20 Justus Miles Forman, Tommy Carteret, a novel (New York: Doubleday, 1905), 307.
21 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 144.
22 E. Nesbit, The Incomplete Amorist, a novel (London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1906), 285–86.
23 E. Nesbit, The Railway Children, 138.
24 E. Nesbit to Berta Ruck, June 20, 1923, Edith Nesbit Archive.
25 Reproduced in the Belfast Newsletter, Saturday, September 6, 1913, 10.
26 Kindergarten Review, vol. 17, 1906–7, 237.
27 “Some Holiday Books,” Kindergarten Magazine and Pedagogical Digest, vol. 19, 1906–7, 295.
28 E. Nesbit, Daphne in Fitzroy Street, 167–68.
29 Ibid., 171.
30 “Great Britain and Russia,” Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, Thursday, June 27, 1907.
31 St. James’s Gazette, Saturday, April 24, 1897, 8.
32 “E. Nesbit and the Yorkshire Post,” The Author, vol. XVII, no. 9, 252.
33 Pall Mall Gazette, Thursday, December 20, 1906, 9.
34 Quoted in the Morning Post, Friday, January 25, 1907.
35 E. Nesbit to Berta Ruck, April 21, 1924, Edith Nesbit Archive.
CHAPTER 16
1 H. G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Philidelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1967), 513.
2 Ibid.
3 E. Nesbit to H. G. Wells, 1905, reproduced in Moore, E. Nesbit, 202.
4 H. G. Wells to E. Nesbit, December 17, 1904, reproduced in Moore, E. Nesbit, 212.
5 E. Nesbit to H. G. Wells, reproduced in Moore, E. Nesbit, 228.
6 McClure’s Magazine, vol. 32, November 1908–April 1909, 613.
7 E. Nesbit to H. G. Wells, February 11, 1905, Wells Papers, University of Illinois.
8 Ruck, A Smile for the Past, 147.
9 Berta Ruck to Doris Langley Moore, January 23, 1932, Edith Nesbit Archive.
10 H. G. Wells to E. Nesbit, August 13, 1905, reproduced in Moore, E. Nesbit, 228–29.
11 Ada Chesterton, The Chestertons,58–59.
12 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 207.
13 E. Nesbit to H. G. Wells, August 1905, Wells Papers, University of Illinois.
14 “Writers of the Day,” The Writer (Boston), vol. 20, 1908, 57.
15 Iris Bland to Jane Wells, March 23, 1906, Wells Papers, University of Illinois.
16 Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, 519.
17 Ibid., 516.
18 Ibid., 517.
19 Wells, H. G. Wells in Love, 69.
20 Hubert Bland, Letters to a Daughter,1–2.
21 Ibid., 2.
22 Ibid., 129.
23 Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie, H. G. Wells: A Biography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973), 225.
24 Wells, H. G. Wells in Love, 68–69.
25 Ibid., 68–69.
26 Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, 513.
27 Ibid., 514.
28 Ibid., 515.
29 Ibid., 515–16.
30 Ibid., 518.
31 H. G. Wells to G. B. Shaw, undated, among the Shaw Papers.
32 Weintraub, Shaw: An Autobiography 1898–1950, 176–77.
33 Ford Madox Ford, Mightier than the Sword (London: Allen & Unwin, 1938), 160–61.
34 Pease, History of the Fabian Society, 165.
35 G. B. Shaw, “H. G. Wells: the man I knew,” available at http://www.newstatesman.com/archive/2013/12/h-g-wells-man-i-knew (accessed December 3, 2017).
36 Ada Chesterton, The Chestertons,57–59.
37 Ruth Fry, Maud and Amber: A New Zealand Mother and Daughter and the Women’s Cause, 1865–1981 (Christchurch, NZ: Canterbury University Press, 1992), 52.
38 Beatrice Webb’s typescript diary, January 2, 1901, to February 10, 1911, August 1909, available at https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/objects/lse:won715bor/read/single#page/550/mode/2up (accessed December 3, 2017).
39 Shaw, “H. G. Wells: the man I knew.”
40 Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie, H. G. Wells, 270.
41 H. G. Wells, The New Machiavelli (London: John Lane, 1911), 317.
42 Ibid., 461–62.
43 Ibid., 462–63.
44 Leonard Woolf, Beginning Again: An Autobiography of the Years 1911–18 (London: Mariner Books, 1964), 129–30.
45 Rosamund Sharp to H. G. Wells, January 26, 1930, Wells Papers, University of Illinois.
46 Rosamund Sharp to H. G. Wells, September 3, [1930], Wells Papers, University of Illinois, ALS 127.
47 Ibid.
48 Rosamund Bland, The Man in Stone House (London: John Miles Ltd., 1936), 33.
49 Ibid.
50 Ibid., 206.
CHAPTER 17
1 E. Nesbit to J. B. Pinker, April 1905, held in the Berg Collection, New York Library.
2 E. Nesbit, Dormant, 28.
3 “The Lounger,” Putnam’s Monthly, vol. 3, October 1907–March 1908, 511.
4 E. Nesbit to Evelyn Sharp, June 13, 1910, held in the Bodleian Library, MSS Eng Lett d. 277.
5 Interview between Graily Hewitt and Doris Langley Moore, February 1933, transcript held in the Edith Nesbit Archive.
6 Gerald Gould, “E. Nesbit,” Week-End Review, January 28, 1933.
7 H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan, and Willard Huntington Wright, Europe after 8:15 (New York: John Lane Company, 1914), 180–81.
8 Morning Post, Saturday, December 21, 1907, 10.
9 “Miscellaneous,” Burlington Magazine, February 1908, 59, vol. 12, 320.
10 E. Nesbit to Lord Dunsany, October 9, 1907, quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 243.
11 E. Nesbit, Dormant, 29.
12 E. Nesbit to Lord Dunsany, quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 243.
13 Quoted in Henry Savage, Richard Middleton: The Man and His Work (London: Cecil Palmer, 1922), 47.
14 Richard Middleton to E. Nesbit, 1908, quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 244.
15 A. E. Housman to Laurence Housman, April 30, 1907, quoted in Alfred Edward Housman and Archie Burnett, eds., The Letters of A. E. Housman (Oxford: Clarendon, 2007), 206.
16 Jepson, Memories of an Edwardian and Neo-Georgian, 100–1.
17 Interview between Kathleen Waters and Doris Langley Moore, transcript held in the Edith Nesbit Archive.
18 E. Nesbit to Lady Dunsany, January 1910, quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 265.
19 Margaret Bondfield (later a Labour politician, trade unionist, and women’s rights activist) to Doris Langley Moore, August 24, 1931, Edith Nesbit Archive.
20 H. G. Wells, Little Wars and Floor Games: The Foundations of Wargaming (London: Courier Dover Publications, 2015), 165.
21 E. Nesbit, Wings and the Child, 96.
22 Albert Coumber to Doris Langley Moore, July 15, 1931, Edith Nesbit Archive.
23 Stanley Kunitz, Howard Haycraft, and Wilbur Crane Hadden, Authors Today and Yesterday, a companion volume to Living Authors (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1934), 490.
CHAPTER 18
1 Berta Ruck to Doris Langley Moore, January 23, 1932, Edith Nesbit Archive.
2 Laurence Housman to Doris Langley Moore, J
uly 12, 1931, Edith Nesbit Archive.
3 E. Nesbit to Evelyn Sharp, June 13, 1910, held in the Bodleian Library, MSS Eng Lett d. 277.
4 Gerald Gould, in Week-End Review, January 28, 1933, vol. 7, issues 148–72,89.
5 E. Nesbit, “Property, Taxes, Votes,” Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Monday, January 22, 1912, 8.
6 Fabian Women’s Group—Three Years’ Work 1908–1911, 1.
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid. A huge emphasis was placed on the compiling of statistics, and the group documented the difficulties faced by working-class women and their families in Lambeth, publishing their findings in “Round About a Pound a Week.”
9 Fabian Women’s Group—Three Years’ Work 1908–1911, 2.
10 Quoted in Kay Daniels, “Emma Brooke: Fabian, Feminist and Writer,” Women’s History Review 12:2, 2003, 153–68.
11 Fabian Women’s Group—Three Years’ Work 1908–1911, 10.
12 “England’s Strenuous Suffragettes,” Wilshire’s Magazine, January 1909, 7.
13 E 111/4 Summary of Seven Papers and Discussions upon the Disabilities of Women as Workers, issued for private circulation only by the Fabian Women’s Group, 1909.
14 Fabian Women’s Group—Three Years’ Work 1908–1911, 10.
15 Minutes of the Fabian Women’s Group held at the Nuffield Library, Oxford.
16 Fabian Women’s Group—Three Years’ Work 1908–1911, 10.
17 Amanda Farrell Hollander, The Fabian Child: English and American Literature and Socialist Reform 1884–1915, PhD thesis, UCLA, 2015, 6. Original in Fabian Society Papers, Box E, Folder 111.
18 Hubert Bland, Letters to a Daughter, 108.
19 Hubert Bland, Essays by Hubert Bland, 209.
20 Hubert Bland, “On Being Delightful,” Letters to a Daughter, 29.
21 Hubert Bland, Letters to a Daughter, 31.
22 Hubert Bland, Essays by Hubert Bland, 67.
23 Ibid., 68.
24 E. Nesbit to Ada Breakell, April 1884, Edith Nesbit Archive.
25 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 145.
26 E. Nesbit, “The Goodwife’s Occupation Gone,” reprinted in the Burnley Express, Saturday, May 30, 1914, 13.
27 E. Nesbit, “Miss Lorrimore’s Career,” Sylvia’s Journal, February 1894, 27–31.
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