Hubert Bland

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Hubert Bland

1856–1914

A journalist, essayist, and early socialist campaigner, he helped shape the voice of the Fabian movement in late Victorian Britain. He is also remembered as the husband of children’s author E. Nesbit and as a vivid, sometimes controversial figure in London literary and political circles.

2 Audiobooks

Letters to a daughter

Letters to a daughter

by Hubert Bland

The Prophet's Mantle

The Prophet's Mantle

by E. (Edith) Nesbit, Hubert Bland

About the author

Born in 1856, Hubert Bland was a British writer, journalist, and political activist. He became one of the early members of the Fabian Society, the gradualist socialist group that played an important role in British political thought, and he wrote regularly for newspapers and magazines as well as publishing essays under the name "Hubert."

Bland moved in a lively literary world and was closely connected with other reformers and writers of his day. He married Edith Nesbit, later famous as E. Nesbit, and their household became part of a wider circle of late nineteenth-century radicals, intellectuals, and artists.

He died in 1914. Though he is not as widely read now as some of his contemporaries, he remains an interesting figure for readers drawn to the overlap of literature, journalism, and early socialist politics in Britain.