Edith Nesbit

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1. 1858 age 0

   Born

2. 1924 age 65

   Died

3. 1970 age 65

   CreditThe Railway Childrenscreenwriter

4. 2004 age 65

   CreditFive Children and Itscreenwriter

• TFTara Fitzgerald1 title
• ZWZoë Wanamaker1 title
• JAJenny Agutter1 title
• KBKenneth Branagh1 title
• JSJohn Stephenson1 title
• FHFreddie Highmore1 title
• AJAlex Jennings1 title
• SHSamuel Hadida1 title
• SISuzy Eddie Izzard1 title
• JBJonathan Bailey1 title

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• And now from the window of a four-wheeled cab the Queen of Babylon beheld the wonders of London. Buckingham Palace she thought uninteresting; Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament little better. But she liked the Tower, and the River, and the ships filled her with wonder and delight.<br />‘But how badly you keep your slaves. How wretched and poor and neglected they seem,’ she said, as the cab rattled along the Mile End Road.<br />‘They aren’t slaves; they’re working-people,’ said Jane.<br />‘Of course they’re working. That’s what slaves are. Don’t you tell me. Do you suppose I don’t know a slave’s face when I see it? Why don’t their masters see that they’re better fed and better clothed? Tell me in three words.’<br />No one answered. The wage-system of modern England is a little difficult to explain in three words even if you understand it—which the children didn’t.<br />‘You’ll have a revolt of your slaves if you’re not careful,’ said the Queen.<br />‘Oh, no,’ said Cyril; ‘yo

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