“There is only one way of understanding children; they cannot be understood by imagination, by observation, nor even by love. They can only be understood by memory.”
About E. Nesbit
15 August 1858–4 May 1924
Edith Nesbit, who published most often as E. Nesbit, was born on 15 August 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane in Kennington, then part of Surrey and now within south London. She died on 4 May 1924 at New Romney, Kent. In the years between those dates she became one of the most inventive writers for children in English…