A S Byatt's The Children's Book is a big, sprawling novel about bohemian types at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, with a central character based on Nesbit. You might find that interesting.
Nesbit was at the centre of of a loosely configured artistic community. She had a close friendship with Bernard Shaw (who didn't write supernatural fiction) and a less close one with H G Wells (who did). Wells attempted to elope with Nesbit's eldest daughter- and Nesbit's husband intercepted the lovers at the railway station and gave Wells a hiding. She was an initiate of The Golden Dawn- as were all sorts of writers- both great and small- from W.B. Yeats to Dion Fortune. In old age she befriended the young Noel Coward.
I've been to the church and seen the tomb that supposedly inspired Man-Size in Marble. I've also visited Nesbit's grave. The locations are within a few miles of each other on Romney Marsh
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Nesbit was at the centre of of a loosely configured artistic community. She had a close friendship with Bernard Shaw (who didn't write supernatural fiction) and a less close one with H G Wells (who did). Wells attempted to elope with Nesbit's eldest daughter- and Nesbit's husband intercepted the lovers at the railway station and gave Wells a hiding. She was an initiate of The Golden Dawn- as were all sorts of writers- both great and small- from W.B. Yeats to Dion Fortune. In old age she befriended the young Noel Coward.
I've been to the church and seen the tomb that supposedly inspired Man-Size in Marble. I've also visited Nesbit's grave. The locations are within a few miles of each other on Romney Marsh