She had previously agreed to adopt Hoatson's child and allow Hoatson to live with her as their housekeeper. A more serious blow came later when she discovered that her good friend, Alice Hoatson, was pregnant with Hubert's child.
Early on Nesbit discovered that another woman believed she was Hubert's fiancee and had also borne him a child. Seven months pregnant, she married Bland on 22 April 1880, though she did not immediately live with him, as Bland initially continued to live with his mother. At eighteen, Nesbit met the bank clerk Hubert Bland in 1877. Her sister Mary's ill health meant that the family travelled around for some years, living variously in Brighton, Buckinghamshire, France (Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Tours, Poitiers, Angoulême, Bordeaux, Arcachon, Pau, Bagnères-de-Bigorre, and Dinan in Brittany), Spain and Germany, before settling for three years at Halstead Hall in Halstead in north-west Kent, a location which later inspired The Railway Children (this distinction has also been claimed by the Derbyshire town of New Mills). Nesbit was born in 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane in Kennington, Surrey (now part of Greater London), the daughter of an agricultural chemist, John Collis Nesbit, who died in March 1862, before her fourth birthday. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later affiliated to the Labour Party. She wrote or collaborated on more than 60 books of children's literature. Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland 15 August 1858 - ) was an English author and poet she published her books for children under the name of E. Lucy, too, has found her way into the city and joins Philip as a co-Deliverer, much to his chagrin. Noah, from a Noah's Ark playset, tells Philip that there are seven great deeds to be performed if he wants to prove himself the Deliverer. Some soldiers find him and tell him that two outsiders have been foretold to be coming: a Deliverer and a Destroyer. Then through some magic he finds himself inside the city, and it is alive with the people he has populated it with. To entertain himself he builds a giant model city from things around the house: game pieces, books, blocks, bowls, etc. He has trouble adjusting at first, thrown into a world different from his previous life and abandoned by his sister while she is on her honeymoon. PLOT: After Philip's older sister and sole family member Helen marries, he goes off to live with his new step sister Lucy. It initially appeared as a serial in The Strand Magazine, with illustrations by Spencer Pryse.
The Magic City is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, first published in 1910.
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