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Main characters
Bobbie ------ the eldest sister Peter ------ the brother Phyllis ----- the younger sister Perks ------ the porter of the railway The mother/father The head of the railway station
Backgroun The Railway Children d reflects on the highly
unconventional life of its author. The lost father is a favourite Nesbit theme: her own father died when she was four and in her books she was always trying to get him back. Bobbie's cry at the end of The Railway Children - "Oh! My Daddy, my Daddy" remains one of the most recognisable and touching lines in children's literature. Poverty was something Edith Nesbit had known first hand, both as a child and as a young married woman with small children. Perhaps as a child, with a widowed mother trying to make ends meet and find a suitable climate for Edith's consumptive elder sister Mary, Nesbit had experienced the admonishment issued by Mother to Phyllis in The Railway Children : "Jam or butter, dear not jam and butter. We can't afford that sort of reckless
Edith had published nearly 100 books.She achieved a great success in children’s literature creation which made her famous overseas.Her creation can be classficated into two parts:one describe real family and adventure story;the other is fairy tale and fantasy story ,which is more
The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1898) The Wouldbegoods (1899) Five Children and It (1902) The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904) The Story of the Amulet (1905) The Railway Children (1906) The Enchanted Castle (1907 The House of Arden (1908) Harding's Luck (1909年) Grim Tales (stories) (1893) The Pilot (1893) The Seven Dragons (1899) The New Treasure Seekers (1904) The Three Mothers (1908) These Little Ones (1909) The Magic City (1910) Dormant (1911) Wet Magic (1913) To the Adventurous (stories) (1923)
Introduction of the authour
Edith Nesbit(1858— 1924)was born in Longdon.She was the youngest child in her family.Her father deid when she was 3 years old,unfortunately,her sisiter was found a serious diease ,so her mother decide to move from foggy London to France and then German,In that time,she was only 9 years old.


The change in the children's lives comes very suddenly. One minute they are all a happy family, with everything that they want. The next minute , Father has to go away without saying anything—‘on business’, Mother says. But her face is white, and the children know that it’s bad news. They have to leave their nice house in London, go and live in a little house in the country. They are poor now, Mother says.