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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Ethel Sidgwick
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
.
Fictionalization
Ethel Smyth
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...
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...