Connections with Brighton and Hove : Edith Nesbit was a character that just had to be associated with the raffish, non-conformist air of Brighton! An ardent Socialist she was a co-founder of the Fabian Society and worked to alleviate urban poverty; she counted HG Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Beatrice & Sidney Webb in her circle; she was a true Bohemian with eclectic taste in clothes and hair styles and with an unconventional attitude to life for her time. A well-known children’s author, 40 books, she is best known as the author of the classic children’s favourite ‘The Railway Children’. Although born in South London she spent much time in rural Kent, ending her days on the Romney Marsh. As a child she travelled extensively with her family on the continent and was something of an unconventional young woman. Her first husband had several children by a series of partners, the children were brought up by Edith, with one of the mothers living in as a housekeeper. In her fifties she came to live in the very remote East Sussex hamlet of Crowlink, high above the Seven Sisters cliffs and used that location in one of her adult novels ‘The Incredible Honeymoon’. She was in all senses a dramatic character and drew heavily on her family life for her novels. She died in 1924 aged 65.
708 ADL- carried name since delivery in February 2024. Previously on Mercedes Streetdeck 939.