quite a few of her other books look like things I won't find especially interesting. But I do want to read more of her work.
I can recommend Angels & Insects (1992) if you are interested in either nineteenth-century natural history or the appropriation of women's voices in the literature of the time; I am unreasoningly fond of Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (1998), which contains both realist stories and fantasies and things in between; I am very ambivalent about The Children's Book (2009), which I liked very much on first read and which diminished each time I went back or learned something else about E. Nesbit, to the point that I think it should either have been a straight historical novel or a totally fictional invention, because the numbers are not quite filed off enough to avoid sounding like a judgment on the real-life writer. I may also be the one other person on the planet who liked The Biographer's Tale (2000), which starts out like Possession redux and then turns into something a lot more elusive and Nabokovian.
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I can recommend Angels & Insects (1992) if you are interested in either nineteenth-century natural history or the appropriation of women's voices in the literature of the time; I am unreasoningly fond of Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (1998), which contains both realist stories and fantasies and things in between; I am very ambivalent about The Children's Book (2009), which I liked very much on first read and which diminished each time I went back or learned something else about E. Nesbit, to the point that I think it should either have been a straight historical novel or a totally fictional invention, because the numbers are not quite filed off enough to avoid sounding like a judgment on the real-life writer. I may also be the one other person on the planet who liked The Biographer's Tale (2000), which starts out like Possession redux and then turns into something a lot more elusive and Nabokovian.