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.

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)
  • 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)
  • "And the Dead Spake--" and The Horror Horn (1922)
  • Colin A Novel (1923)

Short story collections

Short stories from magazines

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, 1925.


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 75 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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