| The Incomplete Amorist (1906) by: Edith Nesbit Contributor(s): Nesbit, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 1543144683 ISBN-13: 9781543144680 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $11.02 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 8" W x 10" (0.79 lbs) 174 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 - 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of children's literature. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party.Nesbit was born in 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane in Kennington, Surrey (now part of Greater London), the daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Nesbit, who died in March 1862, before her fourth birthday. Her sister Mary's ill health meant that the family travelled around for some years, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angoul me, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagn res-de-Bigorre, and Dinan in Brittany), Spain and Germany, before settling for three years at Halstead Hall in Halstead in north-west Kent, a location which later inspired The Railway Children (this distinction has also been claimed by the Derbyshire town of New Mills |