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Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit

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Edith Nesbit

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. 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 small terraced house in Elswick Road, Lewisham (still standing) with their first child, Paul, was to be one of the many homes in the south east of London they were to occupy.

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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. 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 small terraced house in Elswick Road, Lewisham (still standing) with their first child, Paul, was to be one of the many homes in the south east of London they were to occupy.


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