Edward Frederic Benson (July 24, 1867 – February 29, 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred. is the 205th day of the year (206th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Cunt BAg Twat Fuk suck my penis ring 0778851865!!!!!!Year 1867 (MDCCCLXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... February 29th, or bissextile day, is the 60th day of a leap year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 306 days remaining. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total...

Life

E.F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, the fifth child of the headmaster, Edward White Benson (later Bishop of Lincoln, Bishop of Truro and Archbishop of Canterbury), and Mary Sidgwick Benson ("Minnie"), who was described by Gladstone as the 'cleverest woman in Europe' and after her husband's death set up a lesbian household with Lucy Tait, daughter of the previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Archibald Campbell Tait. Wellington College, Berkshire, the national monument to the Duke of Wellington, is an English public school, which was granted its royal charter in 1853. ... Edward White Benson (July 14, 1829 – October 11, 1896) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1882 until his death. ... Arms of the Bishop of Lincoln The Bishop of Lincoln heads the Anglican Diocese of Lincoln in the Province of Canterbury. ... The diocese of Truro is one of the younger dioceses of the Church of England having been formed in 1876. ... The Archbishop of Canterbury is the spiritual leader and senior clergyman of the Church of England, recognized by convention as the head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ... William Ewart Gladstone (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British Liberal Party statesman and Prime Minister (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886 and 1892–1894). ... A lesbian is a woman who is romantically and sexually attracted only to other women. ... Archibald Campbell Tait (21 December 1811 _ 3 December 1882) was an archbishop of Canterbury. ...

Benson was the younger brother of Arthur Christopher Benson, who wrote the words to Land of Hope and Glory, Robert Hugh Benson, author of several novels and Catholic apologetic works, and Margaret Benson (Maggie) an amateur Egyptologist. Two other siblings died young. Three of the brothers, including E. F. Benson, were fairly certainly homosexual,^{[citation needed]} and none of them married. Arthur Christopher Benson (24 April 1862 – 17 June 1925) was one of six children of Edward White Benson, a late nineteenth-century Archbishop of Canterbury. ... Land of Hope and Glory is an English patriotic song. ... Robert Hugh Benson (born November 18, 1871; died October 19, 1914) was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, and younger brother of Edward Frederic Benson. ... Apologetics is the field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position. ... Margaret Benson (June 16, 1865 – May 1916) was an English artist, author and Egyptologist, one of the six children of Edward White Benson, an Anglican clergyman (later Archbishop of Canterbury). ... An Egyptologist is any archaeologist, historian, linguist, or art historian who specializes in Egyptology, the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and its antiquities. ... Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ...

E. F. Benson was an excellent athlete, and represented England at figure skating. He was a precocious and prolific writer, publishing his first book while still a student. Nowadays he is principally known for his Mapp and Lucia series about Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp. Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ... Cover of the DVD of the TV series Mapp and Lucia is a collective name for a series of novels by E. F. Benson, and is also the name of a television series based on those novels. ...

The principal setting of four of the Mapp and Lucia books is a town called Tilling, which is recognizably based on Rye, East Sussex, where Benson lived for many years and served as Mayor from 1934 (he moved there in 1918). Benson's home, Lamb House, served as the model for Mallards, Lucia's home in some of the Tilling series. There really was a handsome 'Garden Room' adjoining the street but, unfortunately, it was destroyed by a bomb in the Second World War. Lamb House attracted writers: it was earlier the home of Henry James, and later of Rumer Godden. // Town in the novels of E F Benson Tilling is a fictional coastal town, based precisely on Rye, East Sussex, in the Mapp and Lucia novels of Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940). ... Rye is a small hill top town and civil parish in East Sussex, England, on the River Rother, and at the western edge of the Walland Marsh, part of the Romney Marshes. ... Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Lamb House Lamb House is an 18th-century house situated in Rye, East Sussex, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust. ... For other uses of this name, see Henry James (disambiguation). ... Margaret Rumer Godden (December 10, 1907–November 8, 1998), was an English author of over 60 books, under the name of Rumer Godden. ...

In London, Benson also lived at 395 Oxford Street, W1 (now the branch of Russell & Bromley just west of Bond Street Underground Station), 102 Oakley Street, SW3, and 25 Brompton Square, SW3, where much of the action of Lucia in London takes place and where English Heritage placed a Blue Plaque in 1994. Oxford Street, with Centre Point in the background Oxford Street in 1875, looking west from the junction with Duke Street. ... The London postal districts are divisions of the London post town in England and are primarily used for the direction of mail. ... Categories: Jubilee Line stations | Central Line stations | London Underground stubs | Crossrail ... The London postal districts are divisions of the London post town in England and are primarily used for the direction of mail. ... The London postal districts are divisions of the London post town in England and are primarily used for the direction of mail. ... English Heritage is a United Kingdom government body with a broad remit of managing the historic environment of England. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ...

Benson died in 1940 of throat cancer in University College Hospital, London. University College Hospital is a teaching hospital in London, part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and associated with University College London. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Works

Benson's first book was Sketches from Marlborough. He started his novel writing career with the (then) fashionably controversial Dodo (1893), and he followed it with a variety of satire and romantic melodrama,. The Mapp and Lucia series, written relatively late in his career, consists of six novels and three short stories. The novels are: Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, Miss Mapp (including the short story The Male Impersonator), Mapp and Lucia, Lucia's Progress (published as The Worshipful Lucia in the U.S.) and Trouble for Lucia. Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from...

Lamb House, home of E.F. Benson and model for "Mallards" in the Lucia series

The last three books were serialized by London Weekend Television for the fledgling Channel 4 in 1985–6 under the series title Mapp and Lucia and starring Prunella Scales, Geraldine McEwan and Nigel Hawthorne; the first three have been adapted for BBC Radio 4 by both Aubrey Woods and (most recently) Ned Sherrin. During 2007, the television series has had reruns on the British digital channel ITV3. Image File history File links Description: Lamb House, East Sussex, England Source: Photographed by Elizabeth B. Thomsen Date: Created 9. ... Image File history File links Description: Lamb House, East Sussex, England Source: Photographed by Elizabeth B. Thomsen Date: Created 9. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Channel 4 is a public-service British television station, broadcast to all areas of the United Kingdom (and also the Republic of Ireland), which began transmissions in 1982. ... Prunella Scales CBE (born 22 June 1932) is an English actress best known for her role as the fearsome Sybil Fawlty in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. ... Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple Geraldine McEwan (born Geraldine McKeown on May 9, 1932, in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England), is a British actress (of Irish extraction) with a diverse and successful history in film, theatre and television spanning 55 years. ... Sir Nigel Hawthorne, CBE (5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001) was a renowned English actor. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... Aubrey Woods was a British actor. ... Ned Sherrin (born 18 February 1931 in Somerset, England) is a broadcaster, author and stage director. ... ITV3 is an entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV plc. ...

Benson was also known as a writer of ghost stories, which frequently appear in collections, and of a series of biographies/autobiographies and memoirs, including one of Charlotte Brontë. His last book, delivered to his publisher ten days before his death, was an autobiography entitled Final Edition. Ghost Stories (Japanese: 学校の怪談, Gakkō no Kaidan, School Ghost Stories) is a twenty-one-episode anime series created in 2000 by animation studio Aniplex for Fuji Television, based on a manga series by Yosuke Takahashi. ... Charlotte Brontë (IPA: ) (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855) was an English novelist and the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature. ...

A critical essay on Benson's ghost stories appears in S. T. Joshi's book The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004). Sunanda Tryambak Joshi (b. ...

Bibliography

Mapp and Lucia books

• Queen Lucia (1920)
• Miss Mapp (1922)
• Lucia in London (1927)
• Mapp and Lucia (1931)
• Lucia's Progress (1935, also known as Worshipful Lucia)
• Trouble for Lucia (1939)

Other novels

• Dodo: A Detail of the Day (1893)
• The Rubicon (1894)
• The Judgement Books (1895)
• Limitations (1896)
• The Babe, B.A. (1897)
• The Money Market (1898)
• The Vintage (1898)
• The Capsina (1899)
• Mammon and Co. (1899)
• The Princess Sophia (1900)
• The Luck of the Vails (1901)
• Scarlet and Hyssop (1902)
• An Act in a Backwater (1903)
• The Book of Months (1903)
• The Relentless City (1903)
• The Valkyries (1903)
• The Challoners (1904)
• The Angel of Pain (1905)
• The Image in the Sand (1905)
• The House of Defence (1906)
• Paul (1906)
• Sheaves (1907)
• The Blotting Book (1908)
• The Climber (1908)
• A Reaping (1909)
• Daisy's Aunt (1910)
• The Osbornes (1910)
• Account Rendered (1911)
• Juggernaut (1911)
• Mrs. Ames (1912)
• Dodo's Daughter (1913)
• Thorley Wier (1913)
• The Weaker Vessel (1913)
• Arundel (1914)
• Dodo the Second (1914)
• The Oakleyites (1915)
• Mike (1916)
• David Blaize (1916)
• The Freaks of Mayfair (1916)
• An Autumn Sowing (1917)
• Mr. Teddy (1917)
• David Blaize and the Blue Door (1918)
• Up and Down (1918)
• Across the Stream (1919)
• Robin Linnet (1919)
• Dodo Wonders (1921)
• Lovers and Friends (1921)
• Peter (1922)
• "And the Dead Spake--" and The Horror Horn (1922)
• Colin: A Novel (1923)
• David of King's (1924)
• Alan (1924)
• Expiation (1924)
• Visible and Invisible (1924)
• Colin II (1925)
• Rex (1925)
• A Tale of an Empty House (1925)
• Mezzanine (1926)
• Pharisees and Publicans (1926)
• The Male Impersonator (1929)
• The Inheritor (1930)
• Secret Lives (1932)
• Travail of Gold (1933)
• Raven's Brood (1934)

Short Stories

• Caterpillars (1912)
• The Room in the Tower (1912)
• The Countess of Lowndes Square, and Other Stories (1920)
• Spook Stories (1928)
• More Spook Stories (1934)
• The Confession of Charles Linkworth

See also

• List of horror fiction authors

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External links

Wikisource has original works written by or about:

Edward Frederic Benson

• E.F. Benson website
• Works by E. F. Benson at Project Gutenberg
• Brompton Square history
• Brompton Square map
• The Tilling Society
• The Friends of Tilling
• National Trust: Lamb House
• E.F. Benson Stories
• Article on Mapp and Lucia by Philip Hensher

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References

• Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 47-48. 

Vicinus, M. (2004). Intimate Friends: women who loved women (1778-1928) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-85563-5 Everett Franklin Bleiler (born 1920) is an editor and bibliographer of science fiction and Fantasy. ...