Arthur Christopher Benson

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 .

Her relations were upset at the first appearance of her sayings in print, fearing that her satirical spiritmight be construed as unkind or even ill-mannered.A. C. Benson , however, praised her real...

The timing, almost coincident with the outbreak of war, caused de la Mare to add that the touch of irony in its title at the present moment is unintentional. He likened EWW to Samuel Smiles

The first collection had a second edition of fifty-five copies (edited with a few corrections by R. E. Gathorne-Hardy and with additions contributed by Edward Marsh ) at Cairo for the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale

Whatever the truth of that, she wrote in full consciousness of outsider status, both delight[ing] in the patriarchal anonymity of the TLS and simultaneously tilt[ing] at it. She used the conventional one for I...

One year after this The Yellow Book published a portrait of GE by E. A. Walton . Meanwhile the literary contributors to the first issue of the magazine included Henry James , Max Beerbohm ,...