E. Nesbit

E. Nesbit is the pen name of Edith Nesbit, an English writer and poet who was married as Edith Bland, and she wrote the books under the Nesbit name. She is best known for Five Children and It, the first of the Psammead trilogy about siblings and a wish-granting creature, and for The Railway Children. Nesbit was also a political activist and co-founder of the Fabian Society, a socialist group later linked to the Labour Party. She died in 1924.