Sharp, Evelyn Nesbit on publishing industry to
Nesbit on women’s suffrage to
The Other Side of the Sun
“The Palace on the Floor”
Sharp, William
Shaw, Elinor Agnes “Yuppy”
Shaw, George Bernard Arms and the Man
athleticism of
attire ofn
on Bland
childhood
Don Giovanni Explains
early career
Fabian Society and, xiii
Freud on
Heartbreak House
Immaturity
as inspiration for Nesbit’s characters
on “It” (debating society)
on le Gallienne’s poetry
Love Among the Artists
Man and Superman
marriage of
Neolith contribution
Nesbit and, xiii
on Nesbit-Bland household
Nesbit on
Nesbit pen portrait byn
Nesbit’s and
on Nesbit’s Lewisham house
on Nesbit’s poetry
on Nesbit’s Shakespeare obsession
personal characteristics of
The Philanderer
photograph
physical appearance of
Sixteen Self Sketches
smallpox and
An Unfinished Novel
An Unsocial Socialist
on Wells
Widowers’ Houses
on Wilson
on women
women and
on women’s rights and suffragen Shaw, George Carr
Shaw, Lucinda Elizabeth “Bessie”
Shaw, Lucinda “Lucy”
Sheffield Daily Telegraph Nesbit on women’s suffrage in
Nesbit’s letters on Shakespeare ciphers in
Shelley Society
Sikes family
Sinnett, Alfred Percy (A. P.)
Sketch, The (magazine), on Nesbit’s charity events
Slade School of Art
Smith, George
Smith, Stuartn Social Democratic Federation (SDF)
Socialist League
Society for Psychical Research
Society of Apothecaries
Society of Authors
Society of Friends of Russia
Sparling, Henry Halliday
Spectator, The on Nesbit’s writing
Something Wrong review in
Spencer, Herbert
Sphere, The, on “It” (debating society) topics
Sporting Times, on Bland’s business partner
Squire, John
Stainer, John
Standard, The (newspaper)
Stap, John
Stapleton, J. Glode
Star (newspaper) le Gallienne’s poetry review in
on Nesbit’s household
Nesbit’s poetry review in
St Bartholomew’s Hospital (London)
St Dunstan’s College (Catford)
St. Eanswith tomb (Brenzett)
Steele, Francis Edward (F. E.) Marshall
Steele, Olive
Stephen, Sir Leslie
Stepniak, Sergei
Stern, Gladys Bronwyn
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stoker, Bram
St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church
Strand Magazine, The dragon series published in
Five Children and It serialized in
Nesbit on poetry in
on Nesbit’s insight into psychology of childhood
Nesbit’s profile in
“The Pavilion” published in
“The Power of Darkness” published in
Stratford-upon-Avon
Summary of Seven Papers and Discussions Upon the Disabilities of Women as Workers
Sutherland, Isabella
Sutro, Alfred
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Sylvia’s Home Journal, Nesbit-Bland collaborations published in
Sylvia’s Journal, “Miss Lorrimore’s Career” published in
T
Tanner, Edmund Vivian
Temple Bar (magazine), “Hurst of Hurstcote” published in
Terry, Ellen
T. Fisher Unwin Publishers
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Theosophical Society
Theosophy
Thompson, James
Thorndike, Agnes
Thorndike, John
Thorndike, Russell
Thorndike, Sybil
Three Gables (Lewisham)
To-day(Fabian Society journal)
Tolkien, Christopher
Tolkien, John
Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit
on Nesbit
Tolkien, Michael
Tompkins, Molly
Tower Hamlets Radical Club
Trismegistus, Hermes
Tuck, Gustave
Tucker, Sophia
Tucker, Thomas Terry “Skipper” book dedication to
collaboration with Nesbit
death of
departure from Well Hall
friendship with Nesbit
inheritance of
marriage to Nesbit
on Nesbit’s biography
at Nesbit’s death
Nesbit’s grave marker made by
nursing Nesbit
physical appearance of
at The Pioneer fundraising events
Turner, Walter James
Tuxford, George Parker
Tuxford, Zara Ann Rogerson
Twain, Mark, Is Shakespeare Dead?
U
Ugly-Wuglies
United Suffragists
Unwin, T. Fisher
urban sprawl, xiii
Utley, Willis
utopianism
V
Vanity Fair (magazine), Nesbit poetry review in
Vault of Mummies, or Skeletons from St. Michael’s Tower, Bordeaux, 1885 (Lhermitte)
Venn, William
Venus de Milo (statue)
Versailles
Villa-Villa Restaurant
Villiers, Lady Beatrice Child (Lady Dunsany)
W
Wallas, Grahamn Warwick Castle
Waters, Kathleen
Watt, A. P.
Watts, Arthur
Webb, Beatricen Webb, Sidney
Webster, Herman
Weekly Dispatch, Nesbit-Bland collaborations published in
Weekly Sun, Nesbit poem published without permission in
Weintraub, Stanley
Well Hall (Eltham) agricultural businesses at
birth of J. Bland at
birth of R. Bland at
death of Bland (F.) at
discovery of
Forster at
Gould at
history ofn Nesbit’s departure from
Nesbit’s hospitality at
paying guests at
photograph
post-Nesbit state ofn renovation of
as source of inspiration
urban sprawl and
Wells at
during World War I
Well Hall Women’s Guild
Wells, H. G. agent of
on children’s games
In the Days of the Comet
Experiment in Autobiography
Fabian Society and, xiii
family home of
Floor Games
health of
H. G. Wells In Love
incest accusations against Bland (H.)
on infidelities
infidelities of
as inspiration for Nesbit’s writing
Kipps
marriages of
A Modern Utopia
Nesbit, E., friendship with, xiii
Nesbit and
on Nesbit-Bland household
on Nesbit’s mistaken gender identity
on Nesbit’s sexuality
on Nesbit’s writing
The New Machiavelli
photograph
relationship with Bland (R.)
on Shaw
Shaw on
The Time Machine
on Well Hall
Wells, Isabel
Wells, Jane
Wesley, John
West Norwood Cemetery (London)
White, Arnold
White, Rivers Blanco
Wilde, Constance
Wilde, Oscar
Williams, Minnie
Wilshire’s Magazine, on Nesbit’s “Women and Work” lectures
Wilson, Arthur
Wilson, Charlotte
Wilson, Jacqueline, Four Children and It
Windsor Magazine, The Story of the Treasure Seekers episodes in
Woman’s Social and Political Union
Woman’s World, The, Nesbit’s poetry published in
Women’s Pioneer Campaign Committee
women’s rights and suffrage
Women’s Tax Resistance League
Woodcock, Fanny
Woolf, Leonard
Woolwich
Woolwich Labour movement
Woolwich Labour Party
Woolwich Pioneer and Labour Journal, war impact on Well Hall
World War I
Writer, The (magazine), on Rosamund Bland’s writing
Wyldes Farmhouse (Hampstead Heath)
Y
Yalding
Yeats, W. B.
Yeats, William Butler
Yellow Book, The (periodical) May’s contributions to
Nesbit on
Nesbit’s contributions to
Yorkshire Evening Post, on Nesbit’s view of how children should be treated
Yorkshire Post, Nesbit’s poem published without permission in
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, on Bland’s will
Edith Nesbit as a child, 1862. Courtesy of the Edith Nesbit Archive, University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections
John Collis Nesbit, Professor of Chemistry and Principal of Kennington Agricultural College. © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library
The Vault of Mummies, or Skeletons from St. Michael’s Tower, Bordeaux, 1885, by Leon Augustin Lhermitte (1844–1925). Charcoal on paper. Private Collection, Paris, France/Giraudon; photographic rights courtesy of Bridgeman Images
An illustration from The Story of the Treasure Seekers; being the adventures of the Bastable children in search of a fortune by E. Nesbit. The caption reads: “We followed her on tiptoe, and Alice sang as she went.” Illustration by Gordon Browne. Courtesy of Bridgeman Images/Alamy Stock Photo
An illustration from The Phoenix and the Carpet by E. Nesbit of Jane jumping down through the ceiling entrance. The caption reads: “Jane dropped.” Illustration by Harold Robert Millar, 1903. Courtesy of Bridgeman Images/Alamy Stock Photo
A cover for a collection of essays on socialism by the Fabian Society’s members, edited by George Bernard Shaw. Courtesy of Lebrecht Music & Arts/Alamy Stock Photo
Portrait of George Bernard Shaw, 1889, held in the New York Public Library Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. Courtesy of Gado Images/Alamy Stock Photo
The Fabian Society Session 1886–1887, illustrated by Walter Crane. Image from the public domain
The Depths of the Sea, by Edward Burne-Jones, 1887. Watercolor and gouache on wove paper mounted on panel. This was the painting that inspired Edith Nesbit’s poem of the same name, which described her relationship with George Bernard Shaw. From the collection of Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Portrait of E. Nesbit by Thomas White of Lewisham, published 1892. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery Photographs Collection
Richard Le Gallienne, photographed by Alfred Ellis. Courtesy of History and Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo
Laurence Housman and Clemence Housman, c. 1910, campaigning for women’s suffrage. Courtesy of History Collection/Alamy Stock Photo
The house at Well Hall where E. Nesbit lived for two decades. Courtesy of the Mary Evans Picture Library
Fabian Bland, photographed shortly before his death in 1900, undated. Courtesy of the Edith Nesbit Archive, University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections
Alice Hoatson and John Bland, undated. Courtesy of the Edith Nesbit Archive, University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections
Edith Nesbit with her son John Bland, taken by an unnamed photographer. First printed in The Tatler, February 10, 1904, p. 241. Courtesy of the Mary Evans Picture Library
Hubert Bland, photographed by Frederick H. Evans, c. 1895–1900. Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Trust
Edith Nesbit working at a writing desk, undated. Courtesy of the Edith Nesbit Archive, University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections
The tomb of John Fagge (d. 1639) and his son, also John (d. 1646), in St. Eanswith, Brenzett. The tomb was likely to have been the inspiration for E. Nesbit’s horror story, Man-size in Marble. Courtesy of Poliphilo/Creative Commons
Undated portrait of H. G. Wells (1866–1946), author of The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds. Courtesy of Archive Pics/Alamy Stock Photo
Dorothea Deakin, Rosamund Bland, Iris Bland, and Jimmy Horsnell, undated. Courtesy of the Edith Nesbit Archive, University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections
E. Nesbit holding chicks. Courtesy of Bridgeman Images/Alamy Stock Photo
E. Nesbit’s grave marker, carved by her second husband, Tommy Tucker. Courtesy of Archaeo Images/Alamy Stock Photo
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