How did E Nesbit come to write The Railway Children?
She was an indifferent mother with a string of lovers - so how did E Nesbit come to write such an idealised celebration of Victorian family life? By Lyn GardnerA hundred years ago this month, the London Magazine carried the third instalment of a new story by the celebrated children's writer E Nesbit. It was Nesbit who, almost a century before JK Rowling invented Harry Potter, had put the fantasy and magic into childr…