Презентация, доклад по английскому языку Edith Nesbit

is British novelist and poet. Author (co-author) of more than 60 works of
fiction for children, some
of which have been adapted
for film and television.
It is also a political activist
and a founding member
of the Fabian Society,
the forerunner of
the modern Labour Party.

Collies Nesbit, was an agricultural chemist. He died in March 1862, before her fourth birthday. Her mother was Sarah Nesbit.

permanently moved for several years, lived in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France, Spain and Germany before settling for three years Halstead Hall in Halstead in northwest Kent, a place which was later described in her "Children of the railway."

1877, 19-year-old Nesbit met a bank clerk Hubert Bland. She married him in 22 April,1880. Their marriage was open and uneasy.

children (Rosamund (b. 1886)
and John (b. 1899).
They were adopted
by Nesbit.
Nesbit and Bland
had three children.

was dedicated; Iris Bland (1881-1950s); Fabian Bland (1885–1900), to whom “Five children and a monster”, “Treasure Hunters “ were devoted ; Rosamund Bland (1886–1950), to whom ”The Book of Dragons” , ”Cat Tales”.
were dedicated; and John Bland (1898–1971) to whom  “The house of Arden” and “Five children and It” were dedicated.

in 1884. Their son Fabian was named in honor of the society. They also collaborated with the editors of the magazine company, "Today."
Nesbit and Bland also
were in the Social
Democratic Federation,
but they rejected it as
too radical.

She and her husband entertained a large number of friends, colleagues and admirers at their Well Hall house.
Hubert Bland
died in 1914.
February 20, 1917,
she married Thomas
"Skipper" Tucker,
the ship's engineer.

cottage «Crowlink» in Frinstone, in East Sussex. She suffered from lung cancer (she "smoked incessantly"). Edith Nesbit died in 1924.

and well-loved story is “The Railway Children“ (1906). The novel is about the adventures of middle class Edwardian family living near a railway station in the suburbs of London at the turn of the 19th century. In 1970, the book was made into film.

a wooden grave marker made by her second husband, Thomas Terry Tucker. There is also a memorial plaque to her inside the church.