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  28 E. Nesbit, “The Slaves of the Spider,” Living Age, February 26, 1916, vol. 288, no. 3738, 571.

  29 Ibid.

  30 Ibid., 572.

  31 Hubert Bland, Essays by Hubert Bland, 69.

  CHAPTER 19

  1 E. Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle, 170.

  2 Ernest Wallis Budge to Doris Langley Moore, May 14, 1931, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  3 E. A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian Magic (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, 1899), 43.

  4 Ibid., x.

  5 Ernest Wallis Budge to Doris Langley Moore, May 14, 1931, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  6 E. Nesbit, “The Kiss,” American Magazine, April 1907.

  7 Ernest Wallis Budge to Doris Langley Moore, May 14, 1931, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  8 Quoted in Roger Luckhurst, The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 140. The friend was Victoria Markham.

  9 “Torch-bearers,” Lucifer, a Theosophic Magazine, edited by Madame Blavatsky and Annie Besant, vol. 6, 1890, 29.

  10 Edgar Jepson, Memories of an Edwardian and Neo-Georgian, 23–24.

  11 Maud Gonne, A Servant of the Queen: Her Own Story (Dublin: Golden Eagle Books, 1950), 248.

  12 For example, Alex Owen in The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).

  13 E. Nesbit, “Accidental Magic; or don’t tell all you know,” The Magic World (London: Macmillan & Co., 1912), 59.

  14 E. Nesbit, Introduction to The Children’s Shakespeare (London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., 1897).

  15 Ruck, A Smile for the Past, 115.

  16 Professor Andrade to Doris Langley Moore, June 9, 1932, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  17 Ibid.

  18 Ibid.

  19 Ibid.

  20 E. Nesbit to Harry Nesbit, 1912. Quoted in Briggs, A Woman of Passion, 347.

  21 E. Nesbit to Harry Nesbit, undated. Quoted in Briggs, A Woman of Passion, 350.

  22 Joan Evans de Alonso, “E. Nesbit’s Well Hall, 1915–1921: A Memoir,” Children’s Literature, vol. 3, 1974, 147–52.

  23 George Seaver, “Memories of E. Nesbit,” held at the Grenwich Local History Library.

  24 Dan H. Laurence, ed., GBS Collected Letters: 1898–1910, Volume 2, 927.

  25 Professor Andrade to Doris Langley Moore.

  26 E. Nesbit to A. Watt, 1912, held in the Berg Collection, NY Public Library.

  27 E. Nesbit, The Incredible Honeymoon,199–200.

  28 Ibid., 202.

  29 Hubert Bland, The Happy Moralist,40–41.

  30 E. Nesbit, “Shakespeare,” letter in the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, January 22, 1912, 11.

  31 E. Nesbit, “An Iconoclast in Stratford,” New Witness, April 29, 674.

  CHAPTER 20

  1 Taylor, E. Nesbit in Eltham, 9.

  2 E. Nesbit to Harry Nesbit, 1911. Quoted in Briggs, A Woman of Passion, 336.

  3 E. Nesbit, The Incredible Honeymoon, 73–74.

  4 E. Nesbit to Lady Dunsany, written toward the end of 1913. Quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 279.

  5 Mavis Strange, “E. Nesbit, As I Knew Her,” Horn Book 34, October 1958, 359.

  6 E. Nesbit to Harry Nesbit, 1912. Quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 274.

  7 E. Nesbit, Wings and the Child, 127–28.

  8 Lesley Gordon, Peepshow into Paradise (New York: J. de Graff, 1953), 158–59.

  9 Letters in the Macmillan Archive quoted in J. Bavidge, “Exhibiting Childhood: E. Nesbit and the Children’s Welfare Exhibitions,” in A. E. Gavin and A. F. Humphries, eds., Childhood in Edwardian Fiction (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

  10 E. Nesbit to Harry Nesbit, December 1, 1913. Quoted in Briggs, A Woman of Passion, 354.

  11 E. Nesbit to Lady Dunsany, late 1913. Quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 279.

  12 A.E.L., “Pioneers at Well Hall,” The Pioneer, Friday, June 1, 1917.

  13 E. Nesbit, The Lark, 114.

  14 Sunday Chronicle (Manchester), April 19, 1914.

  15 Alice Hoatson to Doris Langley Moore, July 4, 1932, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  16 E. Nesbit, Essays by Hubert Bland, 284.

  17 Taylor, E. Nesbit in Eltham, 10.

  18 E. Nesbit to Mavis Carter, June 8, 1915. Quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 288.

  19 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 146.

  20 May Bowley to Doris Langley Moore, November 11, 1931, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  21 Jepson, Memories of an Edwardian and Neo-Georgian, 20.

  22 Liverpool Echo, Saturday, June 13, 1914.

  23 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Saturday, June 13, 1914, 9.

  24 Hull Daily Mail, September 22, 1914.

  25 Hamilton Fyfe, My Seven Selves (London: G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1935).

  26 E. Nesbit to Edward Andrade, March 28, 1915. Quoted in Briggs, A Woman of Passion, 367.

  27 E. Nesbit to Mavis Carter, June 8, 1915. Quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 288. Although The Incredible Honeymoon was published in America in 1916, it did not appear in the United Kingdom until 1921.

  28 E. Nesbit to Harry Nesbit, late 1915. Quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 288.

  29 Daily Gazette for Middlesborough, Monday, June 1915, 2.

  30 Elsa Courlander, quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 290.

  31 G. K. Chesterton to E. Nesbit, 1914. Quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 289.

  32 Berta Ruck to Doris Langley Moore, January 23, 1932, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  33 E. Nesbit to Edward Andrade, March 28, 1915. Quoted in Briggs, A Woman of Passion, 367.

  34 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 142.

  CHAPTER 21

  1 A.E.L., “Pioneers at Well Hall,” 22.

  2 E. Nesbit, “The Voyage of the Hut,” The Graphic, February 21, 1920, 276.

  3 E. Nesbit to Edward Andrade. Quoted in the Edith Nesbit Society Newsletter, June 2016.

  4 A.E.L., “Pioneers at Well Hall,” 22.

  5 E. Nesbit, “The Voyage of the Hut,” 276.

  6 Leeds Mercury, Friday, May 11, 1917, 8.

  7 “Poetess and Poultry Culture,” Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser, Friday, September 15, 1916.

  8 Joan Evans de Alonso, “E. Nesbit’s Well Hall, 1915–1921: A Memoir,” Children’s Literature, vol. 3, 1974, 147–52.

  9 Ibid.,149

  10 Ibid., 151.

  11 Ibid., 147.

  12 Ibid., 148.

  13 Strange, “E. Nesbit As I Knew Her,” 361–62.

  14 E. Nesbit to Edward Andrade, July 12, 1916, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  15 E. Nesbit, The Lark, 179.

  16 E. Nesbit, The Lark, 200.

  17 Peter Blundell to Doris Langley Moore, November 7, 1931, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  18 A.E.L., “Pioneers at Well Hall,” in The Pioneer and Labour Journal, Friday, June 1, 1917, reproduced in Laura Probert, The Well Hall Garden Parties (London: The Edith Nesbit Society, 2007), 23.

  19 E. Nesbit, “The Voyage of the Hut,” 276.

  20 A.E.L., “Pioneers at Well Hall,” in The Pioneer and Labour Journal, 24.

  21 E. Nesbit, The Voyage of the Hut,” 276.

  22 E. Nesbit to Paul Bland, June 1916. Quoted in Briggs, A Woman of Passion, 373.

  23 A.E.L., “Pioneers at Well Hall,” 24.

  24 “What the Women are Doing,” The Pioneer, Friday, May 28, 1915, reproduced in Probert, The Well Hall Garden Parties, 4.

  25 The Pioneer, Friday, June 18, reproduced in Probert, The Well Hall Garden Parties, 4.

  26 The Pioneer Saturday, June 26, reproduced in Probert, The Well Hall Garden Parties, 8.

  27 North West Kent Family History, vol. 4, no.1, March 1986, 16, and the Pioneer report.

  28 E. Nesbit to Harry Nesbit, February 1917. Quoted in Briggs, A Woman of Passion, 373–74.

  29 Iris gave this account to Doris Langley Moore.

  30 E. Nesbit to Edward Andrade, February 7, 1917. Quoted in Briggs, A Woman of Passion, 374.

  31 E. Nesbit to Harry Nesbit, February 19
17. Quoted in Briggs, A Woman of Passion, 373–74.

  32 Russell Green to Doris Langley Moore, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  33 E. Nesbit to Berta Ruck. Quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 220.

  34 Quoted in Briggs, A Woman of Passion, 379.

  35 E. Nesbit to Gertrude Nebel, November 11, 1918, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  36 E. Nesbit to Edward Andrade, February 7, 1917. Quoted in Briggs, A Woman of Passion, 374.

  37 E. Nesbit, Wings and the Child, 53.

  CHAPTER 22

  1 Will of Edith Bland-Tucker, Probate, London, June 12, 1924, London Probate Department.

  2 Account included in Taylor, E. Nesbit in Eltham.

  3 Ford Madox Ford, Return to Yesterday (New York: Liveright, 1932), 27.

  4 “Light Fiction,” Spectator, April 28, 1923, 25.

  5 E. Nesbit to Clemence Dane, March 1921, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  6 Interview between G. B. Stern and Doris Langley Moore, transcript held in the Edith Nesbit Archive.

  7 William Rose Benet, “The Phoenix Nest,” Saturday Review, November 17, 1934, 302.

  8 John Cason, Lewis & Sybil: A Memoir (London: Collins, 1972), 98.

  9 Noël Coward, Present Indicative (London: Methuen Drama, 2008), 141.

  10 Ibid., 12.

  11 Ibid., 141.

  12 Noël Coward to Noel Streatfield, in Barry Day, ed., The Letters of Noël Coward (London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014), 74.

  13 Coward, Present Indicative, 141.

  14 Cole Lesley, Remembered Laughter: The Life of Noël Coward (New York: Knopf, 1976), 68.

  15 Philip Hoare, Noël Coward: A Biography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013), 111 n. 3.

  16 E. Nesbit to Berta Ruck, March 17, 1924, in Olive Hill’s handwriting with a PS from E. Nesbit, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  17 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 148.

  18 E. Nesbit to Berta Ruck, June 23, 1923, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  19 E. Nesbit to Berta Ruck, June 20, 1923, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  20 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 150.

  21 Ibid., 150.

  22 Strange, “E. Nesbit as I Knew her,” 363.

  23 Quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 317.

  24 Strange, “E. Nesbit as I Knew her,” 363.

  25 Ibid., 363.

  26 Quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 316.

  27 E. Nesbit to Berta Ruck, March 17, 1924, in Olive Hill’s handwriting with a P.S. from E. Nesbit, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  28 “The New Books,” Saturday Review of Literature, vol. 11 (New York: Saturday Review Associates, 1934), 302.

  29 Quoted in Moore, E. Nesbit, 321–22.

  30 Ruck, A Storyteller Tells the Truth, 215.

  31 E. Nesbit to Berta Ruck, April 21, 1924, Edith Nesbit Archive.

  32 E. Nesbit, Dormant, 312.

  33 Nottingham Evening Post, Tuesday, September 23, 1924, 4.

  34 Derby Daily Telegraph, Tuesday, May 6, 1924, 2.

  35 L.J.W., “Obituary for J.O.W. Bland M.D.,” British Medical Journal, June 1, 1946, 853 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2059002/pdf/brmedj03835-0030b.pdf.

  36 Taylor, E. Nesbit in Eltham, 6.

  37 Jepson, Memories of an Edwardian and a Neo-Georgian, 21.

  38 Cole Lesley, Remembered Laughter, 370–71.

  39 Edward Eager, “Daily Magic,” The Horn Book, October 1, 1958, 347–49.

  40 C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1955), 14.

  41 Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion & Guide (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 639.

  42 The connection between E. Nesbit and J. R. R. Tolkien is explored at http://nansen-tolkien.co.uk/enesbit.html (accessed December 13, 2017).

  43 “E. Nesbit,” Saturday Review of Literature, vol. 1, Saturday Review Associates, 1934, 59.

  44 Illustrated London News, Friday, November 2, 1984, 12.

  45 Barry Day, ed., The Letters of Noël Coward (London: Methuen/Drama, 2007), 60.

  46 Joan Aiken, In Celebration of Edith Nesbit (London: The Edith Nesbit Society, 1996).

  47 Anna Carey, “Flying High on Page and Screen,” Irish Times, Tuesday, November 1, 2011. https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/flying-high-on-page-and-screen-1.5928 (accessed April24,2018).

  48 J. K. Rowling, “From Mr Darcy to Harry Potter by way of Lolita,” Sunday Herald, May 21, 2000 (this appears to be the transcript of her contribution to a BBC Radio 4 show about famous people and their favorite books). http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2000/0500-heraldsun-rowling.html (accessed January 13, 2017).

  49 E. Nesbit, Wings and the Child, 20.

  50 Ibid., 6–8.

  INDEX OF SEARCHABLE TERMS

  A

  Académie Colarossi

  Académie Julian

  Achurch, Janet

  Aesthetic movement

  Aiken, Joan

  Ainslee’s Magazine, “The Force of Habit” published in

  Alden, W. L.

  Allan, Maud

  Allen, Grantn

  Andersen, Hans Christian

  Andrade, Edward Neville da Costa

  Anstey, F., The Brass Bottle

  Antibes (France)

  Arabian Nights, The (woodcut picture edition)

  Archer, William

  Ashton, Winifred

  Athenaeum, The (magazine) Nesbit as critic for The Story of the Treasure Seekers review

  Thirteen Ways Home review

  Author, The (magazine), on compensating authors for use of writing

  Authors’ Clubn

  Authors Today and Yesterday (magazine), Nesbit profile in

  Aveling, Edward

  B

  Bacon, Sir Francisn

  Bagnères-de-Bigorre(France)

  Bagnold, Enid

  Bailey, Philip James

  Bankruptcy Gazette, on Nesbit (A.) bankruptcy

  Barrett Browning, Elizabeth

  Barron, Oswald book dedication to

  The Butler in Bohemia

  collaboration with Nesbit

  A Family Novelette

  as Nesbit protégé

  in Nesbit’s play production

  Stock Exchange Journal stories

  Bax, Belfort

  Bax, Ernest Belfort

  Becker, Lydia

  Beerbohm, Max

  Bellingham-Smith, Eric

  Bellingham-Smith, Frances

  Bellingham-Smith, Henry

  Bellingham-Smith, Hugh

  Bennett, Arnold

  Bennett, Arthur James agent of Harold Wolfgang

  on le Gallienne and Nesbit

  Benson, Robert Hugh

  Besant, Annie

  Besant, Frank

  Bewick, Thomas

  Birbeck, Marjorie

  Birbeck, William

  Birch, Samuel

  Birmingham

  Black, Clementina

  Black, Grace

  Blackheath Art Club

  Blackheath Gazette on Lewisham Liberal Club

  on Nesbit’s charity events

  on poverty

  Bland, Edith. See Nesbit, Edith “Daisy”

  Bland, Fabian (Nesbit-Bland pseudonym) “The Copper Beeches”

  Longman’s Magazine contribution

  “Only a Joke”

  The Prophet’s Mantle

  Something Wrong

  Bland, Fabian (son) birth of

  childhood

  death of

  education

  as inspiration for Nesbit’s writing

  in Nesbit’s play production

  photograph

  The Wouldbegoods dedication to

  Bland, Gertrude

  Bland, Helen

  Bland, Henry

  Bland, Hubert. See also Bland, Hubert, writings of blindness of

  childhood and early life

  children of. See Bland, Fabian; Bland, Iris; Bland, John Oliver Wentworth “Lamb”; Bland, Paul Cyril; Bland, Rosamund Edith Nesbit
“Rom”

  collaboration with Nesbit. See Bland, Fabian

  courtship of Nesbitn

  death of

  death of son

  Fabian Society and

  Fellowship of the New Life and

  finances of

  health of

  Hoatson and

  hospitality of

  on Hyndman

  incest accusations against

  infidelities of. See also Doran, Maggie; Hoatson, Alice

  on Kipling

  on marriage

  on Nesbit’s Shakespeare obsession

  on Nesbit’s writing

  obituary and tribute

  personal characteristics

  photograph

  physical appearance

  religion and

  on Schreiner

  on Shaw

  socialism and

  traveling with Nesbit

  wedding of

  Wells and

  will (estate planning) of

  on women

  on women’s rights and suffrage

  writing style of

  on youth

  Bland, Hubert, writings of “About Divorce”

  Essays by Hubert Bland: “Hubert” of the Sunday Chronicle

  The Faith I Hold

  The Happy Moralist

  “Hobson’s Choice”

  “To a Lady”

  Letters to a Daughter

  “The Love Interest”

  “Observations on the Art of Life”

  “The Outlook”

  “Some Ways of Love”

  “In the South”

  Bland, Iris birth of

  childhood

  child of. See also Philips, Rosamund Philippa “Pandora”

  death of

  death of brother

  death of father

  at death of mother

  education and career

  inheritance of

  as inspiration for Nesbit’s writing

  marriage of

  in Nesbit’s play production

  on Nesbit’s wedding to Tucker

  nursing Doran

  nursing Nesbit

  photograph

  physical appearance

  Wells and

  Bland, John Oliver Wentworth “Lamb” birth of

  childhood

  death of

  death of father

 

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