As good as God, as clever as the devil
the impossible life of Mary Benson
Large print ed.
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Word Count
88,250 words, Guess
Page Count
353 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveasgoodasgodascle0000bolt_h6h5
- ISBN-101445871165
- ISBN-101445871173
- ISBN-139781445871165
- ISBN-139781445871172
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Number759584792
- Open LibraryOL39215205M
Classifications
- DDC941.081092
Description
"Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year-old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853. Edward went on to be Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie - as Mary Benson - to preside over Lambeth Palace. When [he] died [in 1896], Mary set up house in a Jacobean manor house with her friend Lucy Tait. She remained at the heart of her family of fiercely eccentric children; Arthur wrote the words for Land of Hope and Glory [music by Edward Elgar]; Fred became a successful author (his Mapp and Lucia novels still have a cult following); and Maggie a renowned Egyptologist. But none of the them was 'the marrying sort' and such a rackety family seemed destined for disruption. Drawing on the diaries and novels of thye Bensons themselves ... Bolt has created a ... family history of Victorian and Edwardian England."--Back cover.
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