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Hubert Bland
1856–1914
A sharp-tongued journalist and early socialist, he helped found the Fabian Society and moved in the same lively literary world as Edith Nesbit. His life joined politics, criticism, and late Victorian literary culture in a way that still feels vivid.
2 Audiobooks
Letters to a daughter
by Hubert Bland
The Prophet's Mantle
by E. (Edith) Nesbit, Hubert Bland
About the author
Born in Woolwich, England, Hubert Bland was an English author, journalist, and political writer. He is best remembered as one of the founders of the Fabian Society, the influential group that argued for gradual social reform rather than sudden revolution. His essays and commentary made him a noticeable voice in late 19th- and early 20th-century public life.
Bland also had close ties to the literary world through his marriage to Edith Nesbit. Their household became part of a wide circle of writers, reformers, and political thinkers, and that mix of literature and debate shaped the world around his work. For readers today, he offers a window into the overlapping worlds of journalism, socialism, and English letters.
Some library records list his dates as 1856–1914, but major reference sources give his birth date as January 3, 1855, with his death in 1914. He published essays and contributed to the Fabian movement's writing, leaving behind work that reflects both his political convictions and his strong, opinionated prose.