“The only magic in the city is the magic of imagination, which is, after all, the best magic in the world.”
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…