The Husband Who Was to Mind the House The Husband Who Was to Mind the House The Husband Who Was to Mind the House is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their "Norske Folkeeventyr". It is Aarne-Thompson type 1408 The man who does his wife's work. A husband complained so much about his wife that she suggested that he stay home and do her work. He agrees. He starts to churn butter, but decides to get ale. He hears the pig upstairs, runs to stop it, but does not arrive in time to keep it from overturning the churn, and forgets
The Railway Children Award for best Entertainment in 2011. The stage adaptation, produced by the National Railway Museum and York Theatre Royal, reopened in December 2014 in a new theatre behind London's Kings Cross station and is due to close on 8 January 2017. In 2011, Nesbit was accused of lifting the plot of the book from "The House by the Railway" by Ada J. Graves, a book first published in 1896 and serialised in a popular magazine in 1904, a year before "The Railway Children" first appeared. In both works the children's adventures bear remarkable similarities. At the climax Nesbit's characters use