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The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit

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by Eleanor Fitzsimons


  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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