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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20050113
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Byline: MARTIN KELNER

ONE of the most enduring of children's tales, The Railway Children (Radio 4, 11.30am), was written by an author whose bohemian lifestyle was in stark contrast to her famously charming work, as Edith Nesbit's biographer Julia Briggs reveals on a journey to the writer's childhood home in Kent.

Nesbit shocked Victorian society by casting off her corsets, cutting her hair, chain-smoking and embracing socialism. Briggs visits the Sevenoaks to London railway line, which runs at the back of the house and inspired Nesbit's story, first published as a ...

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