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V2Melody

@v2melody.bsky.social

Born on this day: E. Nesbit.
Born 15 August 1858 — would be 168 today

Musicalized poems on V2Melody:
https://v2melody.com/public_poet_poem_list.php?id=272

NI + AI = V2M

#Poetry #OnThisDay #ENesbit #Classics

Happy birthday, E. Nesbit — musicalized poems on V2Melody

August 15, 2026 at 3:55 AM

Nathan Francis

@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social

"There is no bond like having read and liked the same books."

✒ #ENesbit, English author and poet, was #BOTD 15 August 1858. #Poetry #Literature

August 15, 2026 at 12:06 AM

Movie Location Hunter

@movielocationhunter.co.uk

🎞️ The Railway Children (1970)

⭐ Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, William Mervyn, Iain Cuthbertson, Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett

📽️ Lionel Jeffries

🌍 Haworth, Pretty Penny boutique,, Yorkshire, England

#TheRailwayChildren #FilmSky #MovieSky #SetJetting #ENesbit

May 19, 2026 at 1:42 PM

audiobooks69.bsky.social

@audiobooks69.bsky.social

📣 New Podcast! "The Railway Children by E. Nesbit | Full Audiobook 📖 A Beloved Classic of Family, Adventure & Childhood Wonder" on @Spreaker #adventure #audiobook #audiobooklover #booklover #britishliterature #childhood #childrensclassic #classicbooks #classicliterature #comingofage #enesbit

The Railway Children by E. Nesbit | Full Audiobook 📖 A Beloved Classic of Family, Adventure & Childhood Wonder

⭐ Catholic Star-Rated Review ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ (4.7 / 5 – Catholic Perspective) The Railway Children is a warm and deeply humane classic celebrating family love, sacrifice, kindness, courage, and perseverance during hardship. From a Catholic perspective: - ✔️ Strong emphasis on compassion, honesty, forgiveness, and family unity - ✔️ Highlights charity toward strangers and concern for the vulnerable - ✔️ Encourages gratitude, resilience, humility, and hope during suffering E. Nesbit beautifully portrays: - the innocence and imagination of childhood - the healing power of kindness - and the importance of moral character over wealth or status The novel’s spirit strongly resonates with Catholic values concerning: - family devotion - generosity - and the dignity of ordinary acts of love and sacrifice Overall: A timeless and uplifting family classic filled with warmth, adventure, emotional depth, and enduring moral beauty.

www.spreaker.com

May 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM

Andi Brooks

@ghostlytales.bsky.social

E. Nesbit's 'The Portent of the Shadow' is one of the finest ghost stories. Published in the Black and White periodical on December 23, 1905, it is available in Ghost Stories for Christmas, Volume One: www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Ghost-S...
#ChristmasGhostStory #ENesbit #Blueskybooks #Christmasbook #Ghost

Illustration for E. Nesbit's The Portent of the Shadow by A. Michael shows a woman in late Edwardian dress looking pensively along a shadow-filled corridor.

November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM

Evanitamushroom

@evanitamushroom.bsky.social

Ann Cleeves
ENesbit
Elizabeth Goudge
Margery Allingham
Anne Fine
Catherine Fox
Rosemary Sutcliffe
Natasha Pulley
Eva Ibbotson
Madeleine L’Engle

June 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM

Claire Louise Amias

@clairelouiseamias.bsky.social

See in spooky season in style, with #HauntedShadows at Greenwich Theatre on 31 Oct!
★★★★ West End Best Friend ‘A dazzling display of versatility … a must-see.’

Tickets now on sale here:
www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk

#theatre #halloween #ghoststories #gothic #gothicstyle #edithnesbit #ghosts #enesbit

May 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM

Claire Louise Amias

@clairelouiseamias.bsky.social

#Bristol ghost story fans, come and see 'Haunted Shadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit' at the Alma Tavern on 24-25 Oct. Buy tickets here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/almat...?
★★★★@westendbestfriend.bsky.social @thereviewshub.bsky.social

#theatre #EdithNesbit #ENesbit #ghoststories #gothic

May 22, 2025 at 6:38 AM

Dean Street Press

@deanstpress.bsky.social

COTTAGECORE BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS! 📕💐from Miranda Mills #TheLark #ENesbit #Vlog #booksky

Miranda's book, The Country Commonplace Book, is available to pre-order!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Le...

COTTAGECORE BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS! 📕 💐

YouTube video by Miranda Mills

www.youtube.com

May 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM

Stephen J Carver

@drstephencarver.bsky.social

Out now: A collection of 'Railway Children' author E. Nesbit's #horror and #supernatural stories selected and edited by yours truly for @WordsworthEd: 'Man-size in Marble and Other Grim Tales.' (A mere £4.99)👻🕷️💀 #Books #Reading #ENesbit #paranormal wordsworth-editions.com/book/man-siz...

Man-size in Marble and Other Grim Tales

Selected and Introduced by Stephen Carver The draped effigy just behind him worried him again. He had been trying, at the back of his mind, behind the other thoughts, to strangle the thought of it. Bu...

wordsworth-editions.com

May 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM

Charlotte the Procrastinator

@catsbearsandme.bsky.social

#Poetry
#Poem
#BlueskyPoetry
#ENesbit

Saturday Song by E. Nesbit

They talk about gardens of roses,
And moonlight over the sea,
And mountains and snow
And sunsetty glow,
But I know what is best for me.
The prettiest sight I know,
Worth all your roses and snow,
Is the blaze of light on a Saturday night,
When the barrows are set in a row.
I've heard of bazaars in India
All glitter and spices and smells,
But they don't compare
With the naphtha flare
And the herrings the coster sells;
And the oranges piled like gold,
The cucumbers lean and cold,
And the red and white block-trimmings
And the strawberries fresh and ripe,
And the peas and beans,
And the sprouts and greens,
And the 'taters and trotters and tripe.
And the shops where they sell the chairs,
The mangles and tables and bedding,
And the lovers go by in pairs,
And look--and think of the wedding.
And your girl has her arm in yours,
And you whisper and make her blush.
Oh! the snap in her eyes--and her smiles and her sighs
As she fancies the purple plush!
And you haven't a penny to spend,
But you dream that you've pounds and pounds;
And arm in arm with your only friend
You make your Saturday rounds:
And you see the cradle bright
With ribbon--lace--pink and white;
And she stops her laugh
And you drop your chaff
In the light of the Saturday night.
And the world is new
For her and you -
A little bit of all-right.

March 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM

Ellen Kushner

@ellenkushner.bsky.social

The face of a rabbits that wants me to write an Edward Eager/ENesbit sequel. Does it help that I grew up in Ohio?

March 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM

Claire Louise Amias

@clairelouiseamias.bsky.social

Reviews for 'Haunted Shadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit' at the White Bear Theatre. Buy tickets here:
www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/haun...

★★★★ @WESTENDBF
"Dazzling"

★★★★ @TheReviewsHub "Frightening"

★★★★ @edward_lukes
"Superb"

#theatre #reviews
#gothic #ghoststories
#enesbit

January 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM

Claire Louise Amias

@clairelouiseamias.bsky.social

HAUNTED SHADOWS: THE GOTHIC TALES OF EDITH NESBIT opens tonight!
Edith Nesbit revisits the darkness of her own past.

Once a Week Theatre
★★★★ ‘Good old-fashioned story-telling.’

www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/haun...

#Theatre #EdithNesbit #enesbit #ghoststories #ghoststory #gothic #horror

January 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM

Claire Louise Amias

@clairelouiseamias.bsky.social

Tech day for HAUNTED SHADOWS. And it's starting to look creepy here at the White Bear Theatre
We're looking forward to welcoming you from tomorrow to see our portmanteau #ghoststory show. www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/haun...

#theatre #gothic #EdithNesbit #enesbit #womeninspiringwomen

January 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM

Claire Louise Amias

@clairelouiseamias.bsky.social

One week today until we open at the White Bear Theatre with 'Haunted Shadows The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit'. There is a new story, 'The Pavilion' & more #ENesbit tidbits about her childhood terrors.
www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/haun...

#theatre #edithnesbit
#ghoststories #horror #gothic

January 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM

Claire Louise Amias

@clairelouiseamias.bsky.social

Haunted Shadows soon opens at the White Bear Theatre - it had a preview run. We collected some great audience feedback - including quotes from the fab @RealDaveThomas and Rosie Fiore www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/haun...

#gothic #edithnesbit #enesbit #theatre #ghoststories #femalewriter

January 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM

Claire Louise Amias

@clairelouiseamias.bsky.social

HauntedShadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit transfers to the White Bear Theatre with an extra ghostly story from 28 Jan - 8 Feb. At a theatre only 5 min from where Nesbit grew up! www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/haun...

#ghoststories #gothic #theatre #edithnesbit #enesbit #kennington

January 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM

Claire Louise Amias

@clairelouiseamias.bsky.social

A new podcast interview with the actor and director of #HauntedShadows at the White Bear with the brilliant Everything Theatre ... hear about the inspiration behind the show, Edith Nesbit's life & gothic stories:
everything-theatre.co.uk/2025/01/podc...
#theatre #enesbit #gothic #edithnesbit #ghosts

Podcast: A Ghost is for Life, Not Just For Halloween - Everything Theatre

Claire Louise Amias and Jonathan Rigby talk about Haunted Shadows: The Gotic Tales of Edith Nesbit, coming to White Bear Theatre from 28 January.

everything-theatre.co.uk

January 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM

Claire Louise Amias

@clairelouiseamias.bsky.social

'Haunted Shadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit' now includes a third story, 'The Pavilion', which reveals the terrible secrets contained in a 16th-century alchemist's grimoire.

Buy tickets here:

www.whitebeartheatre.co.uk/whatson/haun...

#theatre #edithnesbit #enesbit #gothic #ghoststory

January 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM

Claire Louise Amias

@clairelouiseamias.bsky.social

New interview with me and Jonathan Rigby about 'Haunted Shadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit' in @pubtheatres1 Hope to see you at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington, between 28 Jan - 8 Feb:
www.londonpubtheatres.com/interview-on...
#EdithNesbit #enesbit #ghoststory #ghost #theatre #gothic