Dodo's Daughter

By E.F. Benson

This early work by Edward Frederic Benson was originally published in 1914 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Dodo is one of the finest creations of E. F. Benson, a darling of the upper echelons of Edwardian society, published in 1893 when he was 26. The novel was fashionably controversial and quite popular, and Benson eventually expanded it into a trilogy (Dodo's Daughter, in 1914, and Dodo Wonders, in 1921). Edward Frederic Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, England in 1867.

• Language: English
• Publisher: White Press
• Release date: Dec 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781473398498

E.F. Benson

Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer. Benson was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and member of a distinguished and eccentric family. After attending Marlborough and King’s College, Cambridge, where he studied classics and archaeology, he worked at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. A great humorist, he achieved success at an early age with his first novel, Dodo(1893). Benson was a prolific author, writing over one hundred books including serious novels, ghost stories, plays, and biographies. But he is best remembered for his Lucia and Mapp comedies written between 1920 and 1939 and other comic novels such as Paying Guests and Mrs Ames. Benson served as mayor of Rye, the Sussex town that provided the model for his fictional Tilling, from 1934 to 1937.