#AUTHOR
                      NEEDHAM, VIOLET (1876-1965)

A1780   SALWAY, LANCE E.  "Survival of the Fittest."  Children's Book News
           4, no. 1 (January-February 1969):5-7.
              Examines reasons for the enduring popularity of Needham's
           books.

A1781   WRIGHT, HILARY.  "Violet Needham:  The Last of the Victorians."
           Junior Bookshelf 47, no. 5 (October 1983):191-95.
              Calls for a reassessment of the work of this forgotten twentieth-
           century children's author.  Includes a bibliography of Needham's
           full-length works.

                NESBIT, E. [Edith Nesbit Bland] (1858-1924)

A1782   ALEXANDER, LLOYD.  "A Second Look:  Five Children and It." Horn
           Book 61 (May 1985):354-55.
              Praises Nesbit's wit and wisdom and calls the book "one of the
           most gloriously funny stories written for any age."

A1783   ARMSTRONG, DENNIS LEE.  "E. Nesbit:  An Entrance to The Magic
           City."  Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1974, 300 pp.,
           DA 35:7897A.
              Considers Nesbit's work in terms of "first the narrative form
           which presents and holds it together, and second the interplay and
           testing of social and literary fictions within that world as well as the
           interplay between her created world and the `real' world inhabited by
           Nesbit and her reader."

A1784   BELL, ANTHEA.   E. Nesbit.   New York:  Walck;  London: Bodley
           Head, 1964, 83 pp.
              Provides biographical background and traces Nesbit's career as a
           writer, concentrating on her Bastable stories and fantasies.  Includes
           brief plot summaries of her children's books and a bibliography of
           their British and American editions.

A1785   BUCKLEY, MARY F.  "Words of Power:  Language and Reality in the
           Fantasy Novels of E. Nesbit and P.L. Travers."  Ed.D. dissertation,
           East Texas State University, 1977, 143 pp., DA 38:6686A.
              Examines the relationship of reality and language as perceived by
           children and by E. Nesbit and P.L. Travers. Concentrates on a selec
           tion of Nesbit's magic books and the four major Mary Poppins books
           by Travers.

A1786   CARPENTER, HUMPHREY.  "E. Nesbit:  A Victorian in Disguise." In
           Secret Gardens, pp. 126-37.
              Questions Nesbit's reputation as a great children's writer, suggest
           ing she was, rather, an expert copier and a writer easy to copy.
           Sees her as popularizing and adapting Kenneth Grahame's view of
           childhood.

A1787   CROUCH, MARCUS.  "E. Nesbit in Kent."  Junior Bookshelf 19 (Janu
           ary 1955):11-12.
              Traces the geographical influences in Nesbit's work.

A1788   -----.  The Nesbit Tradition, p. 16.
              Maintains, "No writer for children today is free of debt to this
           remarkable woman . . . she managed to create prototypes of many of
           the basic patterns in modern children's fiction."  Explains why he has
           chosen her as the starting point for his book on recent British
           children's literature.

A1789   CROXSON, MARY.  "The Emancipated Child in the Novels of E. Nes
           bit."  Signal 14 (May 1974):51-64.
              Sees Nesbit as one of the more powerful agents for change in
           children's lot at the beginning of the twentieth century.  Examines
           the freedom of the children in her novels.

A1790   ELLIS, ALEC.  "E. Nesbit and the Poor."  Junior Bookshelf 38, no. 2
           (April 1974):73-79.
              Examines Nesbit's portrayal of poverty and her related political
           beliefs.

A1791   FROMM, GLORIA G.  "E. Nesbit and the Happy Moralist."  Journal of
           Modern Literature 11 (March 1984):45-65.
              Relates Nesbit's art to her life and describes her strange mix of
           fiction and reality in "The Book of Beasts" (a story in The Book of
           Dragons) and The Enchanted Castle.

A1792   HAND, NIGEL.  "The Other E. Nesbit."  Use of English 26 (Winter
           1974):108-16.
              Argues that Nesbit's best books are House of Arden and Hard
           ing's Luck, which are little known and unavailable in paperback, but
           reflect her Fabian socialist views.

A1793   INGLIS, FRED.  Promise of Happiness, pp. 113-17.
              Sees The Railway Children in terms of altruism and "the best of
           liberal values" of Victorian society and praises the "light, bright, and
           brisk" tone.

A1794   Junior Bookshelf 22, no. 4 (October 1958).
              Special issue.  Includes Noel Streatfeild's "The Nesbit Influence,"
           Roger Lancelyn Green's "E. Nesbit: Treasure-Seeker," and Marcus
           Crouch's "The Nesbit Tradition."  Also includes a note on Nesbit's
           illustrators, pp. 199-201.  Vol. 6 (December 1958):321-22, contains "A
           Further Note on Illustrators of E. Nesbit," by Roger L. Green.

A1795   KRENSKY, STEPHEN.  "A Second Look:  The Story of the Treasure
           Seekers."  Horn Book 54 (June 1978):310-12.
              Argues that Nesbit's characters may be the key to the survival of
           her books.

A1796   LANSNER, HELEN.  "The Genius of E. Nesbit."  EE 43 (January
           1966):53-55.
              An appreciative introduction to Nesbit's work.

A1797   "Magic and the Magician."  Horn Book 34 (October 1958):347-73.
              A special section on Nesbit on the 100th anniversary of her birth.
           Includes articles by Edward Eager, a personal recollection by Mavis
           Strange, a description by Eleanor Graham, of two of Nesbit's child
           hood homes, and a selection from Noel Streatfeild's biography.

A1798   MANLOVE, COLIN.  "Fantasy As Witty Conceit:  E. Nesbit."  Mosaic
           10, no. 2 (Winter 1977):109-30.
              Sees Nesbit's work as fanciful rather than imaginative, as lacking
           "deeply felt spiritual meaning," but nevertheless reaching "a high point
           of wit and ingenuity," displaying "zest for life," and combining
           opposites with a "variety, skill and comic potential unequalled before
           her or since."

A1799   SMITH, BARBARA.  "The Expression of Social Values in the Writing
           of E. Nesbit."  Children's Literature 3 (1974):153-64.
              Discusses the ways in which Nesbit's Fabian-Socialist views are
           expressed in her children's books.  This issue also contains Joan
           Evans de Alonso's personal reminiscence, "E. Nesbit's Well Hall,
           1915-1921:  A Memoir."

A1800   STREATFEILD, NOEL.  Magic and the Magician:  E. Nesbit and Her
           Children's Books.  London:  Abelard-Schuman, 1958, 160 pp.
              Explores Nesbit's childhood for the roots of her books, and
           examines ten of her books in depth.