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==Works== ===Novels for children=== ====Bastable series==== *1899 ''[[The Story of the Treasure Seekers]]'' *1901 ''[[The Wouldbegoods]]'' *1904 ''[[New Treasure Seekers]]'' =====Notes===== ''The Complete History of the Bastable Family'' (1928) is a posthumous omnibus of the three Bastable novels, but does not include the four stories appearing in the 1905 collection ''Oswald Bastable and Others''.<ref name=isfdb/> The Bastables also feature in the 1902 adult novel ''The Red House''. ====Psammead series==== *1902 ''[[Five Children and It]]'' *1904 ''[[The Phoenix and the Carpet]]'' *1906 ''[[The Story of the Amulet]]'' ====House of Arden series==== *1908 ''[[The House of Arden]]'' *1909 ''[[Harding's Luck]]'' ====Other children's novels==== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *1906 ''[[The Railway Children]]'' *1907 ''[[The Enchanted Castle]]'' *1910 ''[[The Magic City (novel)|The Magic City]]'' *1911 ''[[The Wonderful Garden]]'' *1913 ''[[Wet Magic]]'' {{div col end}} ===Novels for adults=== ====As Fabian Bland==== *''The Prophet's Mantle''. Serialised, ''Weekly Dispatch'', 3 August–14 December 1884, published 1889 *''The Hour before Day''. Serialised, ''Weekly Dispatch'', 1885 *''Something Wrong''. Serialised, ''Weekly Dispatch'', 7 March to 4 July 1886 *''The Marden Mystery'' (1896)<ref name="Marden Author">{{Cite web |title=Edith Nesbit Books |url=http://www.foliosociety.com/author/edith-nesbit |publisher=The Folio Society |access-date=22 May 2018}}</ref> (rare: few if any copies survive)<ref name="Marden Missing">{{Cite web |title=E.Nesbit|url=https://www.delphiclassics.com/shop/e-nesbit/ |website=Delphi Classics |date=20 October 2013 |access-date=22 May 2018}}</ref> ====As E. Nesbit==== *1893 ''Her Marriage Lines''. Serialised, ''Weekly Dispatch'', 1893 *1898 ''The Secret of Kyriels'' *1902 ''The Red House'' (featuring the Bastables from the children's books featuring them) *1906 ''The Incomplete Amorist'' *1909 ''Salome and the Head'' (a.k.a. ''The House with No Address'')<ref name=isfdb/> *1909 ''Daphne in Fitzroy Street'' *1911 ''Dormant'' (a.k.a. ''Rose Royal'' in the US) *1916 ''The Incredible Honeymoon'' *1922 ''The Lark'' ====Notes==== Few copies of ''The Secret of Kyriels'' survive.<ref name="Marden Missing"/> ===Stories and storybooks for children=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *1887 ''The Pixies Garden'' *1891 "The Pilot", poem, picture book(?), {{OCLC|905335060}} *1892 ''Father Christmas: The Children's Casket of Pictures'' *1894 ''Miss Mischief'' *1895 ''Tick Tock, Tales of the Clock'' *1895 ''Pussy cat'' *1895 ''Doggy Tales'' *1896 ''The Prince, Two Mice and Some Kitchen-Maids''. Father Christmas: The Children's Treasury of Pictures and Stories (1892) *1897 ''The Children's Shakespeare'' *1897 ''Royal Children of English History'' *1897 ''Tales Told in the Twilight'' (story included in an anthology) *1898 ''The Book of Dogs'' *1899 ''Pussy and Doggy Tales'' *1901 ''The Book of Dragons'' (stories that appeared in ''[[The Strand Magazine|The Strand]]'', 1899){{efn|''The Book of Dragons'' (1901). This comprised ''The Seven Dragons'', a 7-part serial, and an eighth story, all published 1899 in ''[[The Strand Magazine]]'', with a ninth story, "The Last of the Dragons" (posthumous, 1925). It appeared in 1972 as ''The Complete Book of Dragons'' and in 1975 as ''The Last of the Dragons and Some Others''. The original title was then used, with contents augmented by "The Last of the Dragons" and material contemporary to the reissue. The title ''Seven Dragons and Other Stories'' recurred for a latter-day Nesbit collection.<ref>[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?156670 "The Book of Dragons"]. ISFDB. <br />[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?937541 "The Seven Dragons and Other Stories"]. ISFDB. Retrieved 24 February 2015.</ref>}} *1901 ''Nine Unlikely Tales'' *1902 ''The Revolt of the Toys'' *1903 ''The Rainbow Queen and Other Stories'' *1903 ''Playtime Stories'' *1904 ''The Story of Five Rebellious Dolls'' *1904 ''Cat Tales'' (by Nesbit and her daughter Rosamund E. Nesbit Bland)<ref>{{OCLC|62770293}}</ref> *1905 ''Oswald Bastable and Others'' (includes four Bastable stories)<ref name=isfdb/> *1905 ''Pug Peter, King of Mouseland'' *1907 ''[[Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare]]'' (reprint of ''The Children's Shakespeare'', 1895) *1908 ''The Old Nursery Stories'' *1912 ''[[The Magic World]]'' *1925 <!-- the collection -->''Five of Us—and Madeline'' (posthumously assembled and edited by Rosamund E. Nesbit Bland, containing the title novel and two short stories perhaps completed by Nesbit)<ref name=isfdb-mad>[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?197020 "Five of Us—and Madeline"]. ISFDB. Retrieved 12 April 2017.</ref> {{div col end}} ===Short fiction for adults=== ====As Fabian Bland==== *"Psychical Research". ''Longman's Magazine'', December 1884 *"The Fabric of a Vision". ''Argosy'', March 1885 *"An Angel Unawares". ''Weekly Dispatch'', 9 August 1885 *"Desperate Conspirator". ''Weekly Dispatch'', 15 May 1887 *"A Pot of Money". ''Weekly Dispatch'', 21 August 1887 *"Christmas Roses". ''Weekly Dispatch'', 25 December 1887 *"High Social Position". ''Weekly Dispatch'', 8 July 1888 *"Mind and Money". ''Weekly Dispatch'', 16 September 1888 *"Getting into Society". ''Weekly Dispatch'', 30 September 1888 *"A Drama of Exile". ''Weekly Dispatch'', 21 October 1888 *"A Pious Fraud". ''Weekly Dispatch'', 11 November 1888 *"Her First Appearance". ''Weekly Dispatch'', 16 December 1888 *"Which Wins?" ''Murray's Magazine'', December 1888 *"Only a Joke". ''Longman's Magazine'', August 1889 *"The Golden Girl". ''Weekly Dispatch'', 21 December 1890 ====As E. Bland==== *"The Third Drug", ''Strand Magazine'', February 1908 (a.k.a. "The Three Drugs")<ref>[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1013404 "The Third Drug"]. ISFDB. Retrieved 6 February 2013.</ref> ====As E. Nesbit==== *"Uncle Abraham's Romance". ''[[Illustrated London News]]'', 26 September 1891 *"The Ebony Frame". ''Longman's Magazine'', October 1891 *"Hurst of Hurstcote", 1893 *"The Butler in Bohemia" (by Nesbit and [[Oswald Barron]]), {{OCLC|72479308}}, 1894 *"A Strayed Sheep". ''Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal'', 2 June 1894 (with Oswald Barron) *"The Secret of Monsieur Roche Aymon". ''Atalanta Magazine'', October 1894 (with Oswald Barron) *"The Letter in Brown Ink". ''Windsor Magazine'', August 1899 *"'Thirteen Ways Home", 1901 *"These Little Ones", 1909 *"The Aunt and the Editor". ''North Star and Farmers' Chronicle'', 15 June 1909 *"To the Adventurous", 1923 ===Short story collections for adults=== *''Grim Tales'' (horror stories), 1893 **"The Ebony Frame", "John Charrington's Wedding", "Uncle Abraham's Romance", "The Mystery of the Semi-Detached", "From the Dead", "Man-Size in Marble", "The Mass for the Dead" *''Something Wrong'' (horror stories), 1893 *''In Homespun'' (10 stories "written in an English dialect" of South Kent and Sussex), 1896 *''The Literary Sense'' (18 stories), 1903 *''Man and Maid'' (10 stories), 1906 (some supernatural stories){{efn|According to [[John Clute]], "Most of Nesbit's supernatural fiction" contains short stories "assembled in four collections"; namely, ''Man and Maid'' and the three noted here as containing horror stories.<ref>[http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/nesbit_e "Nesbit, E"]. ''SFE: [[The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction]]'' (sf-encyclopedia.com). Entry by "JC", [[John Clute]]. Last updated 8 August 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2018.</ref>}} *''Fear'' (horror stories), 1910 *''Collected Supernatural Stories'', 2000 **"Dormant" ("Rose Royal"), "Man-size in Marble", "The Detective", "No. 17", "John Charrington's Wedding", "The Blue Rose", "The Haunted House", "The House With No Address" ("Salome and the Head"), "The Haunted Inheritance", "The House of Silence", "The Letter in Brown Ink", "The Shadow", "The New Samson", "The Pavilion" *''From the Dead: The Complete Weird Stories of E Nesbit'', 2005 **"Introduction" (by S. T. Joshi), "John Charrington's Wedding", "The Ebony Frame", "The Mass for the Dead", "From the Dead", "Uncle Abraham's Romance", "The Mystery of the Semi-Detached", "Man-Size in Marble", "Hurst of Hurstcote", "The Power of Darkness", "The Shadow", "The Head", "The Three Drugs", "In the Dark", "The New Samson", "Number 17", "The Five Senses", "The Violet Car", "The Haunted House", "The Pavilion", "From My School-Days", "In the Dark", "The Mummies at Bordeaux" *''The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror'', 2006 **"Man-Size in Marble", "Uncle Abraham's Romance", "From the Dead", "The Three Drugs", "The Violet Car", "John Charrington's Wedding", "The Pavilion", "Hurst of Hurstcote", "In the Dark", "The Head", "The Mystery of the Semi-detached", "The Ebony Frame", "The Five Senses", "The Shadow", "The Power of Darkness", "The Haunted Inheritance", "The Letter in Brown Ink", "The House of Silence", "The Haunted House", "The Detective" ===Non-fiction=== ====As Fabian Bland==== No pieces yet traced<ref>While none have yet been traced, Edith Nesbit and her husband reportedly co-wrote articles using this name. Southern Echo,18 October 1889</ref> ====As E. Nesbit==== *"Women and Socialism: from the Middle-Class Point of View". ''Justice'', 4 and 11 April 1885 *"Women and Socialism: A Working Woman's Point of View". ''Justice'', 25 April 1885 *''Wings and the Child, or The Building of Magic Cities'', 1913 *''Long Ago When I Was Young''<ref>{{Cite web |title=book lookup – Long ago when I was young |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/20901910 |via=National Library of Australia |access-date=11 January 2015}}</ref> (originally a serial, 'My School-Days: Memories of Childhood', in ''[[Girl's Own Paper]]'' 1896–1897)<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Lovegrove |first1=Chris |title=The sweet white flowers of memory |url=https://calmgrove.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/ago/#more-2740 |website=wordpress.com |date=4 February 2014 |access-date=11 January 2015}}</ref> Originally appearing as "My School-Days: Memories of Childhood" in ''The Girl's Own Paper'' between October 1896 and September 1897, ''Long Ago When I Was Young'' finally took book form in 1966, some 40 years after Nesbit's death, with an insightful introduction by Noel Streatfeild and some two dozen pen-and-ink drawings by Edward Ardizzone. The twelve chapters reproduce the instalments. ===Poetry=== {{div col|colwidth=20em}} *"A Lovers' Petition". ''Good Words'', 17 August 1881 *"Absolution". ''Longman's Magazine'', August 1882 *"Possibilities". ''Argosy'', July 1884 *"Until the Dawn". ''Justice'', 21 February 1885 *"Socialist Spring Song". ''Today'', June 1885 *"The Dead to the Living". ''Gentleman's Magazine'' *"Waiting". ''Justice'', July 1885 *"Two Voices". ''Justice'', August 1885 *"1857-1885". ''Justice'', 22 August 1885 *"The Wife of All Ages". ''Justice'', 18 September 1885 *"The Time of Roses", undated (c. 1890) *1886 "Lays and Legends" *1887 "The Lily and the Cross" *1887 "Justice for Ireland!". Warminster Gazette, 12 March 1887 *1887 "The Ballad of Ferencz Renyi: Hungary, 1848". Longman's Magazine, April 1887 *1887 "The Message of June". Longman's Magazine, June 1887 *1887 "The Last Envoy" *1887 "The Star of Bethlehem" *1887 "Devotional Verses" *1888 "The Better Part, and Other Poems" *1888 "Landscape and Song" *1888 "The Message of the Dove" *1888 "All Round the Year" *1888 "Leaves of Life" *1889 "Corals and Sea Songs" *1890 "Songs of Two Seasons" *1892 "Sweet Lavender" *1892 "Lays and Legends", 2nd ed. *1895 "Rose Leaves" *1895 "A Pomander of Verse" *1898 "Songs of Love and Empire" *1901 "To Wish You Every Joy" *1905 "The Rainbow and the Rose" *1908 "Jesus in London" *1883–1908 "Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism" *1911 "Ballads and Verses of the Spiritual Life" *1912 "Garden Poems" *1915 "prayer in Time or War"<ref>WAR VERSE, Frank Foxcroft, Thomas Crowell Publisher, 1918</ref> *1922 "Many Voices" {{div col end}} ===Songs=== *1899 ''Slave Song'' (Chappell), {{OCLC|60194453}}<ref>{{Cite book |title=Slave song |publisher=OCLC |oclc=60194453}}</ref> ===Explanatory notes=== {{Notelist}}
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