Betty Askwith

TB published her first novel, Salad Days, with a dedication to her friend and future collaborator Betty Askwith . The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Cleopatra.

TB enjoyed a wide circle of friends both literary and non-literary. The former included Rose Macaulay and Howard Spring . She met her future collaborator Betty Askwith (daughter of an old friend of her mother's)...

Richard Sunne wrote in the New Statesman and Nation of Shallow Water, Miss Benson's soufflé is perfect, and she serves it under a magical salamander, so that each piece retains its lightness and its...

Askwith wrote after Benson's death that the fun they had compiling these books stood quite apart from Benson's serious writing.

Elizabeth Jenkins wrote that The White Sea Monkey was not only the most terrifying story I ever read, but the most characteristic expression of her, in its agonized compassion and its understanding of the human...

John Betjeman , reviewing this book in the Daily Herald, called it a beautiful novel. . . . Full of acute feminine observation, drinks, jokes, talk in keeping with its varied characters, atmosphere and...

Askwith (herself a published writer) defended NRS in the columns of The Times soon after the latter's death. She ranked The Delicate Situation as a novel likely to survive, and likened it to other works...

The publisher had no shortage of praise to quote in advertising material. Elizabeth Goudge called the book the most exciting story and generally agreed with Elizabeth Jenkins 's point that it achieved a truly remarkable...

TB published over a thirty-year span in the earlier twentieth century. Most immediately successful among her works in terms of sales were books of the currently fashionable flippant humour, most of them in collaboration with...

Together with Betty Askwith , TB published Foreigners; or, The World in a Nutshell, a book of humorous sketches with pictures by Nicolas Bentley ; by December it was in its third impression.

Her contributors include Louis Golding on his first time horse-racing and Beverley Nichols on having an Affaire. Betty Askwith wrote of being bitten with the travel bug (on a journey in company with TB

This is a novel of two generations. A young woman, embarked on a secret love affair, finds support from her aunt, Lena Quibell, because Lena's youth lacked opportunity for personal or sexual happiness, but was...

TB , again with Askwith and Bentley , followed Foreigners with Muddling Through; or, Britain in a Nutshell; this time December found the book on only its second impression.

TB followed this in 1931 with two novels, Shallow Water (with illustrations by Ward) and Which Way? She collaborated with Betty Askwith again in Seven Basketfuls, 1932.

She followed this the next year with The Unambitious Journey, published for once under the name of The Hon. Theodora Benson, about a journey to Greece, Yugoslavia, and Albania: a...