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Edith Nesbit (August 15 1858 - May 4, 1924) was a British children's author whose works were published under the asexual name of E. Nesbit.
Edith Nesbit was born in London. She grew up in France, Germany and Kent, and wrote over 60 books of fiction for children, including Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Wouldbegoods, and The Railway Children.
A follower of William Morris, 19-year-old Nesbit met bank clerk Hubert Bland in 1877. Seven months pregnant, she married Bland on 22 April 1880. She and Bland were among the founders of the Fabian Society (precursor to the Labour Party) in 1884, and lived from 1899 to 1920 in Well Hall House, Eltham in south-east London.
She died in 1924 in New Romney, Kent, England.
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