Edward Frederic Benson

Melanie Mills (Janet Melanie Ailsa Mills ), the friend with whom RA shared her life from the time she moved to Beckley, shared many of her interests too. Cyril Scott called Mills in...

ES had one paternal aunt: Mary or Minnie, later Benson, whose husband became Archbishop of Canterbury and whose children included the writers A. C. Benson and E. F. Benson .

ES was famous or notorious in her day. According to Constance Lytton , E. F. Benson painted her portrait as Edith Staines in his novel Dodo. A detail of the day, 1893, whose title...

During the 1920s, RH and Una Troubridge were friends with a wide range of writers, actors, and artists, including Ida Wylie , Romaine Brooks , Natalie Barney , Noël Coward , Tallulah Bankhead , and...

She presents this old house (home to successive writers: Henry James , E. F. Benson , and Rumer Godden ) as holding the story of a mysterious death in the later eighteenth century, which leaves...