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The Edith Nesbit Society


Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) is best known as the author of The Railway Children. She wrote some thirteen other children's stories, the most familiar including The Treasure Seekers, five children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet.

She lived in seven homes around South-East London, including twenty years at Eltham. she also rented several holiday cottages in Kent, along the Medway and on Romney Marsh, where she spent her last years. Many of these locations appear in her stories. In her complex private life, shemarried Hubert Bland, a journalist and first chairman of the Fabian Society, and numbered HG Wells, Bernard Shaw and Noel Coward amongst her friends.

The Edith Nesbit Society aims to celebrate the life and work of the author and her friends, bymeans of talks, publications, including a regular newsletter and visits to relevant places. It will encourage republication of her out-of-print works, and further film adaptations.

The annual subscription is £7 Single, and £9 Joint Membership. (Organisations and Overseas £14 p.a.) Life Member £75. Life Member Overseas £100 To join, send your cheque (payable to the Society) to Margaret McCarthy, 21 Churchfields, West Malling, Kent, ME19 6RJ.  


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