A follower of William Morris, 19-year-old Nesbit met bank clerk Hubert Bland in 1877. Seven months pregnant, she married Bland on 22 April1880. She and Bland were among the founders of the Fabian Society (precursor to the Labour Party) in 1884, and lived from 1899 to 1920 in Well Hall House, Eltham in south-east London.
EdithNesbit (August 15, 1858 - May 4, 1924) was an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the androgenous name of E.
However, Nesbit was an active lecturer and prolific writer on socialism during the 1880s (often signing her books 'Fabian Bland'), though this activity dwindled as her success as a children's author grew.
According to her biographer Julia Briggs, Nesbit was "the first modern writer for children": "[Nesbit] helped to reverse the great tradition of children's literature inaugurated by Carroll, MacDonald and Kenneth Grahame, in turning away from their secondary worlds to the tough truths to be won from encounters with things-as-they-are, previously the province of adult novels.
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