E. Nesbit — a remark

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“Simple rhymes learned when you are very young stay with you all your life.”

Recognising the lasting power of rhythm and language learned in childhood · Essay, Wings and the Child, Chapter IX: Praise and Punishment

About E. Nesbit

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…

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