Rosamund Edith Nesbit Bland

Rosamund Edith Nesbit Bland (1886–1950) was an English author and the adopted daughter of Edith Nesbit. She was the author of the novel The Man in the Stone House and the co-author of Cat's Tales, a children's book she co-wrote with Nesbit.

Early life Rosamund Bland was born in England in 1886. Her parents were Alice Hoatson and Hubert Bland, the husband of Edith Nesbit. Hoatson joined Bland and Nesbit's household after she became pregnant with Rosamund. Reportedly devastated by a recent stillbirth, Nesbit agreed to raise Rosamund as her own.

Bland's brother, John, was born in 1899. John Bland was also the child of Hoatson and Hubert Bland.

Literary career In 1934, Bland's novel The Man in the Stone House, about a teenage girl breaking free from the limitations of her conservative upbringing, was published.

Personal life Bland reportedly had a relationship with H.G. Wells while she was a teenager. She also had a long relationship with Alfred Richard Orage, and in 1909, married Orage's friend Clifford Sharp. Some scholars speculate that the marriage was motivated by a desire to outwardly conform to social convention.