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As good as god, as clever as the devil : the impossible life of Mary Benson

'As Good as God, As Clever as the Devil' tells the extraordinary story of Mary Benson and her family, bringing the late Victorian and early Edwardian period vividly to life.

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  • "'As Good as God, As Clever as the Devil' tells the extraordinary story of Mary Benson and her family, bringing the late Victorian and early Edwardian period vividly to life."@en
  • "Young 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 become Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie - as Mary Benson - to preside over Lambeth Palace, and a social world that ranged from Tennyson and Browning to foreign royalty and Queen Victoria herself. Prime Minister William Gladstone called her 'the cleverest woman in Europe'. Yet Mrs Benson's most intense relationships were not with her husband and his associates, but with other women. When the Archbishop died, Mary - 'Ben' to her intimates -"@en
  • ""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."@en

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  • "As good as god, as clever as the devil : the impossible life of Mary Benson"
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  • "As good as god, as clever as the devil : the impossible life of Mary Benson"@en
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