The Extraordinary Life of e Nesbit

A groundbreaker in every sense, the Edwardian author Edith Nesbit (1858 - 1924) changed children's books forever with her much-loved novels The Railway Children and Five Children and It. Her stories of female heroines, magic, adventure and time travel continue to influence children's literature more than a century later. As a cigar-smoking socialist she was a founder of the Fabian Society, in which the Labour Party has its roots. Her personal life was every bit as colourful as her fiction. George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells frequented her wild bohemian parties, where she would throw away her corset, flash her knickers and bicycle around London. Discover the secrets she kept so carefully hidden from the public and find out what happened when her husband had two children with her best friend. Book jacket.