E. Nesbit — a remark

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“The more highly cultivated the imagination the more intensely joyous are the games.”

Linking imaginative development with a richer experience of play · Essay, Wings and the Child, Part II, Chapter I: Romance in Games

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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