Edith and Hubert had a rather "open marriage"; Edith had affairs with
George Bernard Shaw and others, while her husband Hubert Bland continued to see
Alice Hoatson in an affair which produced two children (Rosamund in
1886 and John in 1899), both of whom Nesbit raised as her own. Edith's
own children were Paul Bland (1880-1940), Iris Bland (1881-1819??), and
Fabian Bland (1885-1900, who died aged 15 after a tonsils operation).
With Hubert, Edith also published under the pseudonym "Fabian Bland."
Edith and Hubert, after the turn of the century, both converted to
Catholicism. Four years after Hubert Bland died in 1913, Nesbit married
Thomas Tucker, an affable, loving ship's engineer from a lower-class
background, thus practicing what she preached.
