{"id":3663,"date":"2017-02-08T21:38:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T21:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2017-08-22T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:07:09","slug":"e-nesbit-mother-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/e-nesbit-mother-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"E Nesbit – Mother of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you remember those heady days of 1893, dear listener? We laughed, we shared brandy by the Seine, and you were sick in a gendarme’s hat. We snuggled close and read E Nesbit’s<\/strong> scary tales, and then we thought, ‘Wait a minute, this is a woman. Damned cheek, coming over here and writing supernatural fiction, putting struggling male writers out of a job.’<\/p>\n

Later that year, the First Matabele War started in South Africa, so we went back to knitting socks for the missionaries. But today, in honour of Women in Horror<\/strong><\/em> month, we open E Nesbit once again\u2026<\/p>\n

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There are some cracking female horror writers around at the moment. However, we’ve been meaning to write about E Nesbit since last September, so what better time to get our act together? Our main interest is her horror stories, but a little background would not go amiss.<\/p>\n

Edith Nesbit<\/strong><\/span> (1858-1924) was a typical British housewife of her time. Oh, apart from:<\/p>\n