• 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)

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")

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), , 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)
  • 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"
  • Dark Tales in Winter, 2021
  • "The Shadow" adapted for stage by Matt Beames and Hannah Torrance.

Non-fiction

As Fabian Bland

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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 (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"
  • 1915 "prayer in Time or War"
  • 1922 "Many Voices"

Songs

  • 1899 Slave Song (Chappell),

Explanatory notes

References

Citations

Sources

  • "The Writing of E. Nesbit" by Gore Vidal, The New York Review of Books, 3 December 1964
  • "Lost Lives: Edith Bland" by Bill Greenwell
  • Nesbit at YourDictionary.com (reprint from Encyclopedia of World Biography)
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  • Rosamund E. Nesbit Bland at LC Authorities, with 2 records, and at WorldCat

;Online texts

  • Melisande by E. Nesbit , a tale similar to Rapunzel
  • My School Days (article series by Nesbit)
  • The Magic World

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