BIOGRAPHY OF E.NESBIT 1858 - 1924 Edith Nesbit was born in London in 1858. When she was four her father died but her mother bravely continued to run the agricultural college her husband, and before that, his father, had founded in Kennington, London.
Her childhood was shared with her sister, half sister and 3 brothers. She was educated on the continent when she accompanied her mother and sister Mary travelling throughout France, Germany and Spain. This was not an educational grand tour but an endeavour to get her sister well as she was suffering from tuberculosis.
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Upon their return to England Edith's mother moved the family from London to Halstead, Kent. This was the start of Edith's love of the countryside and especially of Kent.
At 18 years of age she met Hubert Bland whom she was eventually to marry.
They married in a Registry Office in the City of London and Hubert found Edith a home overlooking Blackheath, south east London. A move to a s
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