E. Nesbit used grief, politics, imagination to make a new kind of book for kids

[pepys]

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-british-socialist-who-rewrote-the-world-for-children

[bentley]

The article mentions that two of her books (The House of Arden and The Railway Children) are being republished this fall. That said, her copyrights have expired, so they’re also available now as open‐source, public domain ebooks at Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-nesbit

I was a big fan of Nesbit’s Psammead trilogy as a child: Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, and The Story of the Amulet.

[Uhhrrr → optimalsolver]

It's like COVID, enough people have been cancelled now that people are well on their way to not caring.

[tristor → optimalsolver]

She died before WW2, and nobody alive today was alive when she was alive, so how is she "cancelled"? Her novels are on multiple Top 50/Top 100 of all time lists.

[mcphage → optimalsolver]

Evidently not—what ever made you think that she was?