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Books edited or arranged by E. Nesbit
Spring songs and sketches; Summer songs and sketches; Autumn
songs and sketches; Winter songs and sketches. A series of illustrated
books of verses, selected and arranged by E. N. and R. Ellice
Mack. London and New York 1886. A similar series of books – for
Morning, Noon, Eventide and Night – was pbd in 1887.
River sketches. Words selected and written by E. N. London and
New York 1887.
Winter snow; In the spring time; The time of roses; Autumn leaves.
A series of books, with contents selected and arranged by E. N.
London and New York 1888.
Lilies and heartsease; Daisy days; Falling leaves. A similar series of
books, ed E. N. and R. E. Mack, London and New York 1888.
By land and sea. Poems selected by E. N., London and New York 1888.
The life of happy children. By C. Brooke, A. Hoatson and E. Bland.
Selected and arranged by E. N., London and New York 1889.
Songs of Scotland. Selected by E. N., illustr H. Bellingham Smith, G.
E. Corner and G. Gorsky, 1890.
The girl’s own birthday book. Selected and arranged by E. N. 1894.
Poets’ whispers, a birthday book. Quotations selected and arranged
by E. N. 1895.
Collaborative works
The prophet’s mantle. In collaboration with Hubert Bland, under
the pseud ‘Fabian Bland’. 1885, Chicago 1889.
Easter-tide. By E. N. and C. Brooke. 1888, New York 1888.
All round the year. By E. N. and C. Brooke. 1888.
The lilies round the cross. 1889, New York 1889. With Helen J. Wood.
Life’s sunny side. 1890, New York 1890. Poems by E. N. and others.
Told by the fireside. 1890. Short stories by E. N. and others.
Twice four. 1891. Short stories by E. N. and others.
Story upon story, and every word true. 1892. By E. N. and others.
Contributions to the following books of verse and prose, pbd 1893:
Flowers I bring and songs I sing; Our friends and all about them;
Listen long and listen well; Sunny tales for snowy days; Told by
the sunbeams and me; What really happened; We’ve tales to tell.
Contributions to 15 of the Nister’s Holiday Annuals between 1893
and 1915.
Contributions to the following books of verse and prose, pbd 1894:
Hours in many lands; Tales that are true for brown eyes and blue;
Tales to delight from morning till night; Fur and feathers, tales
for all weathers; All but one, told by the flowers; Lads and lasses.
A graven image. 1894. Short stories by E. N. and O. Barron.
The butler in Bohemia. 1894. Short stories, written in collaboration
with O. Barron.
Contributions to the following books of verse and prose, pbd 1895:
Tick tock, tales of the clock; Stories in a shell; Treasures from storyland;
Friends in fable, a book of animal stories; Rosy cheeks
and golden ringlets.
Dulcie’s lantern, and other stories. 1895. By E. N. and others.
Holly and mistletoe, a book of Christmas verse. 1895. With Norman
Gale and Richard le Gallienne.
Once upon a time, the favourite nursery tales [retold by E. N. and
others]. London and New York 1897. Much of this material was
included in later Nister editions – e.g. Little red riding hood and
other nursery tales (undated) and Favourite fairy tales (1912),
where E. N. is named as one of several authors.
Dinna forget. London 1897, New York 1898. Poems by E. N. and
others.
Tales told in the twilight. London and New York 1897. Very short
stories by E. N. and others.
Dog tales, and other tales. By E. N. and others. Ed E. Vredenburg
1898.
A book of dogs, being a discourse on them, with many tales and
wonders. Gathered by E. N. London and New York 1898.
Contributions to Father Tuck’s Annual. 1900.
Cat tales. London and New York 1904. With Rosamund Bland.
Days of delight. Ed E. Vredenburg 1910 (71 pp.). In Father Tuck’s
Golden Gift ser. There are possibly 19 vols in the series. Only a few
have Nesbit contributions. Father Tuck’s Welcome Gift ser may
also date from this time – see undated section, below.
Children’s stories from English history. Told by E. N. and Doris
Ashley. 1910. Rptd material from Royal children of English
history, 1897; reissued 1914.
My sea-side-story book. By E. N. with G. Manville Fenn. London and
New York 1911.
Favourite fairy tales. Retold by E. N. and others. 1911.
Battle songs. Chosen by E. N. 1914.
Essays. By Hubert Bland. Ed ‘E. Nesbit Bland’. 1914.
Undated collaborative works
Sunny hours. In Father Tuck’s Welcome Gift ser, no 401. There were
6 vols in this series, some of which may have had E. N. contributions.
The numbering suggests a date before 1910 (see Golden Gift
ser under that year, above).
My farmyard story book. By E. N. and others. London and New York.
Stories for all times. By E. N. and others. London and New York.
Hallowe’en house. By Mrs Molesworth, E. N. and others. London
and New York.
Round the hearth. By E. N. and others. Ed and arranged by Robert
Ellice Mack.
Merry playtimes, a picture book for boys and girls. By E. N. and
others. London and New York.
Our own story book. By E. N. and others. London and New York.
Merry companions. By E. N. and others. London and New York.
In picture land, a book of pictures and stories for little ones. By E. N.
and others. London and New York.
Blue eyes and cherry pies. By E. N. and others. London and New
York.
The beautiful world, and other poems. By E. N. and others. London
and New York.
Contributions to periodicals
E. Nesbit was a prolific contributor to periodicals of all descriptions. Her first
contribution was a ‘set of verses with a moral tag’ in The Sunday Mag in
1874 (not yet precisely identified). The first positively identified contribution
was a set of verses ‘A Year Ago’ in Good Words Dec 1876. The following lists
the more important of the rest of her huge output:
Argosy. Over 30 contributions 1877–97.
Atalanta. At least 8 contributions 1891–8.
Black and White. 4 chs from children’s books 1899–1907.
Daily Chron. Weekly articles for children Apr–July 1910.
Girls Own Paper. My school days, Oct 1896–Sep 1897.
Home Chimes. Short stories 1887–9.
Illus London News. Chs from children’s books 1896–1901.
London Mag. Chs from children’s books 1903–6.
Longman’s Mag. 4 adult short stories and poems 1890–1.
Neolith, an experimental mag, pbd quarterly under the direction of
E. N., Graily Hewitt, F. Ernest Jackson and Spencer Pryse. 4 issues
only pbd (3 with Nesbit stories). 1907–8.
Pall Mall Mag. Chs from children’s books 1893–5.
Sketch. Adult short stories and poems 1893–5.
Strand Mag. July 1899–Aug 1913. Large sections of many of her most
important children’s books, from The book of dragons to Wet
magic (111 contributions in all).
Weekly Dispatch. Numerous contributions Jan 1882–Mar 1892. In
the middle years a poem and/or a short story appeared virtually
every week.
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Obit: The Kentish Express 10 May 1924.
Moore, D. Langley. E. Nesbit, a biography. 1933, 1936, 1951, rev edn
Philadelphia and New York 1966, London 1967.
Edith Nesbit
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