NESBIT, E.; The Incredible Honeymoon. 1921. 1st Edition. Signed by author

Description and Condition

• Description
• Hardcover / Cloth. Red cloth with black titles to spine. Publishers catalogue to rear with section stating books for Spring 1921. Language: English. Size: 19 cm by 13 cm. Pages: 286, 24pp catalogue.
• Book Condition
• Very Good
• Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Sunned spine and margins. Tightly bound with lightly toned intact endpapers and strong hinges. Previous owners name and author signature to ffep. Spotting to half title with minor spotting to upper page margins of other preliminaries and first few pages. Occasional minor spots and marks to pages.
• Dust Jacket Condition
• No DJ

Notes

• Author
• Edith Nesbit (Edith Bland; 1858 - 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party. Born in Kennington, Surrey, the daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Nesbit and Sarah Green (née Alderton). In 1877, at the age of 18, Nesbit met the bank clerk Hubert Bland, and at seven months pregnant, she married Bland on 22 April 1880. Their marriage was tumultuous. In 1886, when she discovered that her friend, Alice Hoatson, was pregnant by him. She had previously agreed to adopt Hoatson's child and allow Hoatson to live with her as their housekeeper. After she discovered the truth, she suggested that Hoatson and the baby, Rosamund, should leave; her husband threatened to leave Edith. Hoatson remained with them as a housekeeper and secretary and became pregnant by Bland again 13 years later. Edith again adopted Hoatson's child, John. Nesbit admired the artist and Marxian socialist William Morris. The couple joined the founders of the Fabian Society in 1884, and jointly edited its journal Today. Nesbit was a prolific lecturer and writer on socialism in the 1880s. She and her husband co-wrote under the pseudonym "Fabian Bland". She was a guest speaker at the London School of Economics, which had been founded by other Fabian Society members. On 20 February 1917, some three years after Bland died, Nesbit married Thomas "the Skipper" Tucker in Woolwich, where he was captain of the Woolwich Ferry. Towards the end of her life, Nesbit moved first to Crowlink. Nesbit died in 1924, probably from lung cancer (she "smoked incessantly"), and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary in the Marsh. Nesbit's biographer, Julia Briggs, names her "the first modern writer for children", who "helped to reverse the great tradition of children's literature inaugurated by Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and Kenneth Grahame, in turning away from their secondary worlds to the tough truths to be won from encounters with things-as-they-are, previously the province of adult novels". Briggs also credits Nesbit with inventing the children's adventure story. The creator of modern children's fantasy, she influenced many later writers, including P. L. Travers (of Mary Poppins), J. K. Rowling and C. S. Lewis who paid heed to her in the Narnia series and mentions the Bastable children in The Magician's Nephew. Nesbit also wrote for adults, including eleven novels, short stories, and four collections of horror stories.

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