The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Victorian Iconoclast, Children's Author, and Creator of the Railway Children

by Eleanor Fitzsimons

Book Overview

A Sunday Times Best Book of the Year: The "informative and entertaining" first major biography of the trailblazing, controversial children's author (The Washington Post).

Born in 1858, Edith Nesbit is today considered the first modern writer for children and the inventor of the children's adventure story. In The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit, award-winning biographer Eleanor Fitzsimons uncovers the little-known...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419738976
• ISBN13: 9781419738975
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"