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E. Nesbit
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(Edith Nesbit, 1858–1924) Author of novels for children which have acquired the status of classics. She was a general writer, and an enthusiastic early Socialist, until she discovered in middle age the talent for which she is famous. In 1899 she published The Story of the Treasure Seekers; it introduced the Bastable family, whose children reappear in several later books. The Railway Children (1906) features Roberta, Peter and Phyllis, who by their initiative rescue their father from unjust imprisonment. In Five Children and It (1902), the first of her fantasy books, 'it' is a rather dank, small, magic creature, the Psammead, which grants the children their wishes with often embarrassing consequences.
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