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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