Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic) 1867-1940

Overview

Works:	854 works in 3,792 publications in 4 languages and 37,403 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Biography Records and correspondence Humorous fiction Biographies Short stories Drama Film adaptations History Horror films
Roles:	Author, Editor, Author of introduction, Conceptor, Composer, Other, Author of screenplay
Classifications:	PR6003.E66, 823.912

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about E. F Benson

Final edition by E. F Benson( Book )
The life of E.F. Benson by Brian Masters( Book )
Our family affairs, 1867-1896 by E. F Benson( Book )
Mapp & Lucia( Visual )
The heirs of Jane Austen : twentieth-century writers of the comedy of manners by Rachel R Mather( Book )

E.F. Benson, as he was by Geoffrey Palmer( Book )
Dead of night( Visual )
Mapp & Lucia( Visual )
Mapp & Lucia( Visual )
E.F. Benson : Mr Benson remembered in Rye and the world of Tilling by Cynthia Reavell( Book )
E.F. Benson : remembered, and the world of Tilling by Cynthia Reavell( Book )
The Dodo : the E.F. Benson Society journal( )
The Life of E.F. Benson by Brian Masters( Recording )
E.F. Benson by Brian Masters( Book )
As we were : a Victorian peep show by E. F Benson( Book )
Historical vignettes by David Newsome( Book )
Speak low : towards a theory of the non-discourse of male homosexuality in Wilde, Proust and beyond by Mark David Guenette( )
Villarities: a winter souvenir( Book )
E.F. Benson & his famliy and friends by Gwen Watkins( Book )
As we were by E. F Benson( Book )

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Most widely held works by E. F Benson

The blotting book by E. F Benson( )

37 editions published between 1908 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 1,448 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"A violent murder disturbs the high society of Edwardian Brighton in this masterful whodunnit from the author of Mapp and Lucia"--Provided by publisher

Mapp and Lucia by E. F Benson( Book )

78 editions published between 1931 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 1,413 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Now a widow, Lucia moves to the village of Tilling where she meets a rival fo her social dominance, the clever Miss Mapp

Queen Lucia : a novel by E. F Benson( Book )

83 editions published between 1920 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 1,341 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lucia and her husband Georgia insert little Italian phrases into all of their conversations in the small village of Riseholme, but they live in perpetual dread of meeting a genuine Italian who might expose their pretensions

Make way for Lucia by E. F Benson( Book )

24 editions published between 1948 and 2012 in English and held by 1,096 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"E.F. Benson's hilarious novels, written in the 1920's and 30's of the war for social supremacy between Lucia and Miss Mapp in the small coastal town of Tilling are brought to the stage with all the wit, irony and gentle mocking humour of the originals. Hitherto, Tilling's doyenne has been Miss Mapp; Lucia is the supreme poseuse who peppers her speech with Italian phrases she doesn't understand, and for whom the word 'defeat' exists in no language. So when Miss Lucia rents Miss Mapp's house for the summer and her confidant Georgie joins her, the battle lines are drawn as the two ladies engage in an art exhibition, a garden fête and evenings of musica"

As we were : a Victorian peep show by E. F Benson( Book )

63 editions published between 1930 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,032 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this anecdotal book, Benson affords his sly observations on the great and the not-so-good. Prince Albert, Blume Jones, Queen Victoria and Edward VII, as well as Gladstone, Gosse, the Pre-Raphaelites, Ruskin, Swinburne, Whistler and Wilde are all subjects of his wit

Queen Victoria by E. F Benson( Book )

38 editions published between 1935 and 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 928 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Book on Queen Victoria

Charlotte Brontë by E. F Benson( Book )

44 editions published between 1932 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 907 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Miss Mapp : a novel by E. F Benson( )

62 editions published between 1922 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 896 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Miss Elizabeth Mapp, magnificent, grande dame and heiress, is always on the lookout lest her neighbors fall outside the bounds of perfect, exemplary manners. But her tightly controlled world is soon beset on all sides by interlopers, first in the disturbingly masculine form of two very different retired army officers, both of whom are anything but retiring in their conflicting aims upon her heart

Trouble for Lucia by E. F Benson( Book )

44 editions published between 1939 and 2017 in English and held by 716 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

N Trouble for Lucia, Lucia learns to ride a bicycle, and we live through the saga of Blue Birdie (Mrs. Wyse's dead budgerigar invoked in a seance). Lucia and Georgie renew their acquaintance with the operatic diva Olga Braceley and the composer Cortese, but nobody in Tilling believes her when she claims to have entertained a duchess overnight. Lucia becomes Mayor of Tilling and Miss Mapp is appointed her Mayoress

Lucia in London by E. F Benson( Book )

59 editions published between 1867 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 699 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

E.F. Benson began the histories of Miss Elizabeth Mapp of Tilling and Mrs. Emmaline Lucas (Lucia) of Riseholme in the 1920's; and this book is one of a series of six which form an exquisite tapestry of life in two delightful English country towns

King Edward VII, an appreciation by E. F Benson( Book )

26 editions published between 1933 and 1934 in English and Undetermined and held by 643 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Queen Victoria's daughters by E. F Benson( Book )

8 editions published between 1938 and 1939 in English and held by 598 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sir Francis Drake by E. F Benson( Book )

32 editions published between 1927 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lucia's progress by E. F Benson( Book )

33 editions published between 1935 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 510 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lucia and Mapp's amusing adventures in Tilling continue in Lucia's Progress. The redoubtable pair stand unsuccessfully for election to the Town Council. Lucia enters a too-chaste marriage with Georgie. And after a house swap with the infamous Miss Mapp, Lucia redecorates, only to discover - and then hide - the remains of a Roman villa!

Michael by E. F Benson( )

21 editions published between 1916 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 509 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The story of a kindhearted man named Michael Comber"--Provided by publisher

Desirable residences and other stories by E. F Benson( Book )

11 editions published between 1991 and 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 508 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Fine feathers : and other stories by E. F Benson( Book )

8 editions published between 1994 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 467 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A selection of stories featuring, among others, four of Benson's heroines: Amy Bondham, Dodo, Mrs. Ames, and Miss Mapp

The life of Alcibiades by E. F Benson( Book )

23 editions published between 1926 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 464 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Promoted the Peloponnesian war against rival Sparta, who subsequently inspired Athens's failed Sicilian Expedition, and who later allied himself with two of Athens's biggest enemies: Sparta and Persia. His actions gravely affected the future of Athens and his motives and reasons for acting as he did are indeed the stuff of fascinating biography. Alcibiades's extraordinary beauty, great wealth, ostentatious vanity, male and female amours, debaucheries, and impious revels earned him notoriety not only in Athens but throughout the Hellenic world. In subsequent ages his name was used as a near by-word for all kinds of excess. But, as Benson argues, reappraising Alcibiades's reputation, great as were his vices, his virtues were even greater..."--Publisher description

As we are : a modern revue by E. F Benson( Book )

26 editions published between 1930 and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 434 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

World War I brings about many social changes in Britain that leave Lord and Lady Buryan completely at a loss

The freaks of Mayfair by E. F Benson( Book )

32 editions published between 1916 and 2014 in English and French and held by 427 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In a series of dry fictional sketches, E.F. Benson introduces the reader to some of the more bizarre inhabitants of Mayfair's Edwardian high society - a world he knew intimately. Each is a distinct reprsentative of an anthropological "type."

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