Edith Nesbit

Julia Briggs,

Paperback

Biography & Memoir, History, Women in History

Publication date: 01/09/2007

ISBN: 9780752442549

RRP:

£17.99

Edith Nesbit is one of the greatest children's writers of the century. Her readers loved to think of her as a reassuringly aunt-like figure. This biography reveals her as a demanding and adventurous woman who broke all society's rules in her search for love. It also explores the relationship between her life and her fiction.

About the author

Julia Briggs

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