![]() But Scott Ellis gives a pale and interesting performance as Mr Guasto, while Blue Merrick presents a disdainful portrait of an author who hated Christmas, resented children and loathed her own legions of admirers. ![]() Perhaps the alternate ending of The Railway Children, in which Roberta, Phyllis and Peter watch the fireball of the engine career down the embankment, "in utter terror, pee trickling down their legs", pushes things a bit far. There's also reference to the grisly childhood experience of visiting a French crypt full of mummified bodies, a vision that has coloured her imagination ever since. ![]() Having lost one of her own sons to a routine surgical procedure, she submitted to bringing up the offspring of her husband's mistress under her own roof. And In the Dark is less well known than many of her ghost stories, yet it is among her best. Less well known are her many ghost stories. ![]() Nesbit was an English author famous for her children’s stories. Edith Nesbit (18581924), English author and poet wrote the childrens novel The Railway Children (1906). Meeks's highly original, well-conceived Christmas entertainment entwines dramatisation of the tales with supporting evidence of the darkness of Nesbit's domestic circumstances. In the Dark is a classic ghost story By Edith Nesbit, published in 1910. ![]()
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