Bibliography of E Nesbit

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Surnames/tags: Nesbit Bland

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E Nesbit was a prolific writer. Here is a more complete bibliography of her works:

• Stories and storybooks for children
  • 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 (bedtime stories by several writers)
  • 1898 The Book of Dogs
  • 1899 Pussy and Doggy Tales
  • 1901 The Book of Dragons (stories that appeared in The Strand, 1899)
  • 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)
  • 1905 Oswald Bastable and Others (includes four Bastable stories)
  • 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 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)

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) (rare: few if any copies survive)
• As E Nesbit
  • 1893 Her Marriage Lines. Serialised, Weekly Dispatch, 1893
  • 1898 The Secret of Kyriels (rare: few copies survive)
  • 1902 The Red House
  • 1906 The Incomplete Amorist
  • 1909 Salome and the Head (also known as The House with No Address)
  • 1909 Daphne in Fitzroy Street
  • 1911 Dormant (US title, Rose Royal)
  • 1916 The Incredible Honeymoon
  • 1922 The Lark

Short stories 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 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
  • "The Literary Sense", 1903
  • "The Third Drug", Strand Magazine, February 1908, as by E. Bland. Reprinted in anthologies thus and as "The Three Drugs"
  • "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
  • Man and Maid (10 stories), 1906 (some supernatural stories)
  • 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 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[48] (originally a serial, 'My School-Days: Memories of Childhood', in Girl's Own Paper 1896–1897). 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
  • "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"
  • 1922 "Many Voices"
• Songs
  • 1899 Slave Song (Chappell), OCLC 60194453

Acknowledgments

• Wikipedia:E._Nesbit