Person Edith Nesbit

Nesbit, the daughter of an agricultural chemist, was born in 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane in Kennington, Surrey (now classified as Inner London). Due to Edith's sister Mary's illness, the family spent several years traveling, living in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angoulême, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Dinan in Brittany), Spain, and Germany. After Mary's death, Edith and her mother settled for three years at Halstead Hall in Halstead, north-west Kent, a setting that later inspired The Railway Children (though the Derbyshire town of New Mills has also claimed this distinction).