Edward Frederic Benson, anthology

Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.

Benson's first book was Sketches from Marlborough. He started his novel writing career with the (then) fashionably controversial Dodo (1893), which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama. He repeated the success of Dodo, which featured a portrait of composer and militant suffragette Ethel Smyth with the same cast of characters a generation later: Dodo the Second (1914) and Dodo Wonders (1921)

The Mapp and Lucia series, written relatively late in his career, consists of six novels and two 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 United States) and Trouble for Lucia. The short stories are "The Male Impersonator" and "Desirable Residences".

In this ebook:

The Rubicon

Mammon and Co.

Scarlet and Hyssop

Dodo's Daughter

Dodo Wonders

Across the Stream

Daisy's Aunt

Michael

The Blotting Book

Crescent and Iron Cross

Queen Lucia

Miss Mapp, including 'The Male Impersonator'

Lucia in London

Mapp And Lucia

Lucia's Progress

Trouble for Lucia

Mrs Ames

Paying Guests

Collected Stories