Edward Frederic Benson
(1867–1940)

English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaelogist and short story writer, known professionally as E. F. Benson. Best remembered for his Mapp and Lucia series about Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp; and for his ghost stories.

Edward Frederic Benson

Works

Novels

The Lucia books

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

The Dodo books

  • Dodo A Detail of the Day (1893)
  • Dodo's Daughter (1913) (UK: Dodo the Second, 1914)
  • Dodo Wonders (1921)

Other novels

  • 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) (novella)
    • "The Blotting Book" Ainslee's, 1907 May (novella)
  • The Climber (1908)
  • A Reaping (1909)
  • Daisy's Aunt (1910)
  • The Osbornes (1910)
  • Account Rendered (1911)
  • Juggernaut (1911)
  • Mrs. Ames (1912)
  • Thorley Wier (1913)
  • The Weaker Vessel (1913)
  • Arundel (1914)
  • The Oakleyites (1915)
  • Mike (also published as Michael) (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)
  • Lovers and Friends (1921)
  • Peter (1922)
  • Colin A Novel (1923)
  • David of King's (1924)
  • Alan (1924)
  • Expiation (1924)
  • Colin II (1925)
  • Rex (1925)
  • A Tale of an Empty House (1925)
  • Mezzanine (1926)
  • Pharisees and Publicans (1926)

Short story collections

Non-fiction

  • Crescent and Iron Cross (1918)

Short works from magazines

Non-fiction
  • "The Social Value of Golf" Everybody's 1901
  • "The Heart of India" Century 1914
  • "The Golden Temple of Amritsar" Century 1914
  • "Dewan-i-Khas:The Hall of Private Audience" Century 1914 (romanticised history)

Works about Benson

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.


The author died in 1940, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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