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E. Nesbit
English author and poet (1858–1924)
For the American model, see Evelyn Nesbit.
Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English writer and poet, who published her books for children and others as E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 such books. She was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party.
Biography
[edit]Nesbit was born in 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane, Kennington, Surrey (now classified as Inner London),[a] the daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Nesbit, who died in March 1862, before her fourth birthday. Her mother was Sarah Green (née Alderton).
The ill health of Edith's sister Mary meant that the family travelled for some years, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angoulême, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Dinan in Brittany), Spain and Germany. Mary was engaged in 1871 to the poet Philip Bourke Marston, but later that year she died of tuberculosis in Normandy.[3]
After Mary's death, Edith and her mother settled for three years at Halstead Hall, Halstead, north-west Kent, a location that inspired
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Evelyn Nesbit
American model, chorus girl, and actress (1880s–1967)
For the writer, see E. Nesbit.
Evelyn Nesbit | |
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1903 photograph by Gertrude Käsebier | |
| Born | (1884-12-25)December 25, 1884, or (1885-12-25)December 25, 1885 Tarentum, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | January 17, 1967(1967-01-17) (aged 82) or January 17, 1967(1967-01-17) (aged 81) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Evelyn Nesbit Thaw |
| Occupation(s) | Model, chorus girl, actress |
| Years active | 1899-1967 |
| Spouses | Jack Clifford (m. 1916; div. 1933) |
| Children | Russell William Thaw |
Florence Evelyn Nesbit (December 25, 1884 or 1885 – January 17, 1967) was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and actress. She is best known for her career in New York City, as well as her husband, railroad scion Harry Kendall Thaw's obsessive and abusive fixation on both Nesbit and architect Stanford White, which resulted in White's murder by Thaw in 1906.
As a model, Nesbit was frequently photographed for mass circulation newspapers, magazine advertisements, souvenir items and calendars. When in her early teens, she had begun working as an artist's model in Philadelphia. Nesbit continued after her family moved