jevvv🇳🇿Sep 8, 2025
Dogs are barking, Theodore is not impressed!
But what will happen in the last few stories today? Join me at 1pm NZT to find out.
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Show threadJonathan EmmesediMay 14, 2025

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...Edith Nesbit's "Psammead" series not only engaged me with narrative but also suggested to me, particularly in the second and third books, that "another world is possible".

I am sure that such a suggestion formed part of Nesbit's authorial intention, given that she was a committed socialist and founding member of the Fabian Society.

Fantasy in literature is sometimes criticized as "escapist". Whenever such a label is applied to disparage this or other genres, I respond by conceding that escapism might well be a motive for readers or audiences; I then ask what are they trying to escape from and where are they trying to escape to.

The politics of escapism are by no means straightforwardly quietistic or socially soporific.

#EdithNesbit #Fantasy #Books #Literature #BritishLiterature
#Escapism #ChildrensLiterature #EnglishLiterature

Of Bookish ThingsDec 22, 2024

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone
#GhostStoryForChristmas #GhostStory #TraditionalGhostStories #Ghosts #VictorianGhostStories #Book #Books #ShortStories #VictorianLiterature #Literature #PerformingArts #EdwarianLiteraure #EdithNesbit #ManSizeInMarble, #BBC #BBC_TV #Television #MarkGatiss

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/dec/21/a-ghost-story-for-christmas-woman-of-stone-far-too-good-to-only-exist-as-festive-tv

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40321

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Woman of Stone – far too good to only exist as festive TV

Mark Gatiss’s one-off spooky tale starring Mawaan Rizwan, Monica Dolan and Éanna Hardwicke is a total treat. Can we have much more like this please?

The Guardian
Waywords StudioDec 20, 2024

𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: 𝑨 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈: "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘" 𝒃𝒚 𝑬. 𝑵𝒆𝒔𝒃𝒊𝒕 -

Why not tell some ghost stories this Solstice? Here's one from 1907, which may be even more terrifying beneath its surface. . . .

https://buff.ly/3P32psO

#literarynomads #waywordspodcast #wintersolstice #wintersolstice2024 #ghoststory #EdithNesbit #ENesbit #TheShadow

Waypoint – The Shadow | Waywords Studio

Anna DaleMay 4, 2024
I paid my respects to author and poet, Edith Nesbit, today. Edith died exactly 100 years ago today, aged 65. She is buried in St Mary in the Marsh, Kent.
E. Nesbit is one of my favourite authors. Her imagination, her engaging style and her sense of humour were formidable.
#EdithNesbit #enesbit 🌼 #alwaysremembered #100yearsago #restinpeace
MaiakowskaMay 4, 2024

Affiche originale du film The Railway Children (1970), adaptation du roman de littérature jeunesse éponyme (1905) de l'écrivaine britannique Edith Nesbit. Artwork de Arnaldo Putzu.

La romancière britannique Edith Nesbit (1858-1925), qui doit sa notoriété aux nombreux ouvrages de littérature jeunesse qu'elle a écrits et publiées, est décédée il y a tout juste 100 ans.

source : https://www.pastposters.com/details.php?prodId=19486

#edithnesbit

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Original Movie Poster, Original British Quad Poster and US One Sheet Poster from www.pastposters.com

Show threadFID Anglo-American CultureMay 4, 2024

We also have a rare early edition of #EdithNesbit's The Would-Be-Goods, vol 2 of the Bastables Series, printed circa 1901!
Check out the beautiful #illustrations in this classic of English #childrensLiterature

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=632234903

#TreasureSeekers #EnglishLiterature #ENesbit

Göttinger Universitätskatalog (GUK) - results/titledata

Show threadFID Anglo-American CultureMay 4, 2024

Our collection also houses many rare finds, such as this booklet on #EdithNesbit's various homes and residencies in London & Kent, by Nicholas Reed & the Edith #Nesbit Society

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=37468765X

Göttinger Universitätskatalog (GUK) - results/titledata

Show threadFID Anglo-American CultureMay 4, 2024
Did you know #ENesbit had a very turbulent life & knew pretty much everyone in cultural & #socialist circles in late #Victorian & #EdwardianAge?
Find out more in 2 excellent #EdithNesbit #biographies:
@EleanorFitzsimons's 2019 one,
& the classic 1987 #biography by Julia Briggs!
FID Anglo-American CultureMay 4, 2024

Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of #EdithNesbit, beloved author of #childrensBooks such as #RailwayChildren, the #Psammead series and many more - and great #ghoststories, too!
Dive into her world with #TheMagicCity, a classic #fantasy novel for kids!

https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=012472328

Göttinger Universitätskatalog (GUK) - results/titledata