Hardings Luck

Edité par Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1909

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Published: 1909. DESCRIPTION: Red cloth. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Lightly sunned spine. Tightly bound with very lightly toned intact endpapers and strong hinges. Light spotting to preliminaries and rear pages. All plates present. DJ Condition: No DJ Pages xi, 281. Size: 8vo 20cm by 13cm. AUTHOR: Edith Nesbit(Edith Bland; 1858 - 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published herbooks for childrenasE. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist and co-founder of theFabian Society, asocialistorganisation later affiliated to theLabour Party. Born in Kennington, Surrey, the daughter of an agricultural chemist,John Collis Nesbit and Sarah Green (née Alderton). In 1877, at the age of 18, Nesbit met the bank clerkHubert Bland, and at seven months pregnant, she married Bland on 22 April 1880. Their marriage was tumultuous. In 1886, when she discovered that her friend,Alice Hoatson, was pregnant by him. She had previously agreed to adopt Hoatsons child and allow Hoatson to live with her as their housekeeper. After she discovered the truth, she suggested that Hoatson and the baby,Rosamund, should leave; her husband threatened to leave Edith. Hoatson remained with them as a housekeeper and secretary and became pregnant by Bland again 13 years later. Edith again adopted Hoatsons child, John. Nesbit admired the artist andMarxiansocialistWilliam Morris. The couple joined the founders of theFabian Societyin 1884,and jointly edited its journalToday. Nesbit was a prolific lecturer and writer on socialism in the 1880s. She and her husband co-wrote under the pseudonym "Fabian Bland". She was a guest speaker at theLondon School of Economics, which had been founded by other Fabian Society members. On 20 February 1917, some three years after Bland died, Nesbit married Thomas "the Skipper" Tucker inWoolwich, where he was captain of theWoolwich Ferry. Towards the end of her life, Nesbit moved first to Crowlink. Nesbit died in 1924, probably from lung cancer (she "smoked incessantly"),and was buried in the churchyard ofSt Mary in the Marsh. Nesbits biographer, Julia Briggs, names her "the first modern writer for children", who "helped to reverse the great tradition of childrens literature inaugurated byLewis Carroll,George MacDonaldandKenneth Grahame, in turning away from theirsecondary worldsto the tough truths to be won from encounters with things-as-they-are, previously the province of adult novels". Briggs also credits Nesbit with inventing the childrensadventure story. The creator of modernchildrens fantasy, she influenced many later writers, includingP. L. Travers(ofMary Poppins),J. K. Rowling and C. S. Lewiswho paid heed to her in theNarniaseriesand mentions the Bastable children inThe Magicians Nephew. Nesbit also wrote for adults, including eleven novels, short stories, and four collections of horror stories. …

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Titre
Hardings Luck
Auteur
NESBIT, E. & MILLAR, R.H (Illus.)
Éditeur
Hodder & Stoughton, London
Année de publication
1909
État de l'article
Good
Jaquette
No DJ
Reliure
Hardcover
Illustrateur
MILLAR, R.H
Dimensions
Size: 8vo 20cm by 13cm.

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