Jean Bonilla’s Reviews > The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Victorian Iconoclast, Children’s Author, and Creator of The Railway Children > Status Update

It reminds me of the steady progress of Route 50 out towards The British Pantry and the construction of town houses that goes with it. I know people need places to live, but it’s horrid all the same.

She also hated creeping urbanization, just as I do. “The ugly little streets crawled further and further out of the town eating up the green country like greedy yellow caterpillars.” She attributed this blight to greed and lamented: “It is curious that nearly all fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones.”

And her sweeping dresses generally were made out of Liberty fabrics. I remember buying a Liberty print when I was in London and making a lovely dress with pin tucks a down the top of the bodice.

Three points that stand out: her Socialism, her uncorseted figure, and her promiscuity.

It’s also odd the way she throws in biographic sketches of other people.