I just looked her up recently because I read a review of a new book that has a character based on her. The Children's Book by A. S. Byatt.
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
God, I love The Railway Children.
I rolled my eyes a bit when Peter is given the lecture about being a man and the girls are soft tenderhearted rabbits. But I cry at the end. It's also interesting, the kids are about 8, 10, and 12 - they seem *much* younger in some ways.
Wasn't E. Nesbit quite the sexy babe as well as having the scandalous, revolutionary lifestyle?
Re The Amber Spyglass, the part I was talking about was when Lyra and Pan got separated. Gah, so many tears!
Wasn't E. Nesbit quite the sexy babe as well as having the scandalous, revolutionary lifestyle?
I think you're thinking of Evelyn Nesbit, the chorus girl (aka The Girl on the Swing) [link] . E. Nesbit the author looked like this: [link]
(Never mind -- nothing to see here.)
Glamcookie, me too!
Glamcookie, me too!
It was a real killer.
No, Edith Nesbit was herself rather an extravagant figure, a founder of the Fabian society and follower of Wm. Morris, in an open marriage, smoking and drinking and swanning about in the Victorian era.