Author:Edward Frederic Benson

Edward Frederic Benson
(1867–1940)

Edward Frederic Benson

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) (novella)
  • "The Blotting Book" Ainslee's, 1907 May (novella)
• 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)
• Colin A Novel (1923)
• David of King's (1924)
• Alan (1924)
• Expiation (1924)
• Colin II (1925)
• Rex (1925)
• A Tale of an Empty House (1925)
• Mezzanine (1926)
• Pharisees and Publicans (1926)

Short story collections

• The Room in the Tower and Other Stories (1912)
  • The Room in the Tower
  • The Dust-Cloud
  • Gavon's Eve
  • The Confession of Charles Linkworth
  • At Abdul Ali's Grave
  • The Shootings of Achnaleish
  • How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
  • Caterpillars
  • The Cat
  • The Bus-Conductor
  • The Man Who Went Too Far
  • Between the Lights
  • Outside the Door
  • The Terror by Night
  • The Other Bed
  • The Thing in the Hall
  • The House with the Brick-Kiln
• The Countess of Lowndes Square and Other Stories (1920)
  • [Blackmailing Stories]
  • The Countess of Lowndes Square
  • The Blackmailer of Park Lane
  • [General Stories]
  • The Dance on the Beefsteak
  • The Oriolists
  • In the Dark
  • The False Step
  • [Spook Stories]
  • The Case of Frank Hampden
  • Mrs. Andrews's Control
  • The Ape
  • "Through"
  • [Cat Stories]
  • "Puss-cat"
  • There Arose a King
  • [Crank Stories]
  • The Tragedy of Oliver Bowman
  • Philip's Safety Razor
• "And the Dead Spake--" and The Horror Horn (1922) [Included in Visible and Invisible, 1923]
• Visible and Invisible (1923)
  • "And the Dead Spake——"
  • The Outcast
  • The Horror-Horn
  • Machaon
  • Negotium Perambulans
  • At the Farmhouse
  • Inscrutable Decrees
  • The Gardener
  • Mr. Tilly's Séance
  • Mrs. Amworth
  • In the Tube
  • Roderick's Story
• Spook Stories (1928)
  • Reconciliation • (1924)
  • The Face • (1924)
  • Spinach • (1924)
  • Bagnell Terrace • (1925)
  • A Tale of an Empty House • (1925)
  • Naboth's Vineyard • (1923)
  • Expiation • (1923)
  • Home, Sweet Home • (1927)
  • And No Birds Sing • (1926)
  • The Corner House • (1926)
  • Corstophine • (1924)
  • The Temple • (1924)

Non-fiction

• Crescent and Iron Cross (1918)

Short works from magazines

• "The Return of the Probationer" (ss) English Illustrated Magazine, 1893
• "The Story of a Mazurka" (ss) English Illustrated Magazine, 1893-94
• "The Overture to "Tannhäuser"" (ss) English Illustrated Magazine, 1894
• "A Woman's Ambition" in Windsor Magazine, Vol 13, 1900-01
• "The Alliance of Laughter" in Scribner's magazine, 1902
• "A Superfluous Loyalist" Pall Mall 1902
• "A Double Misfit," (ss) Windsor Magazine, Vol 17, 1902-03
• "The Superannuation Department, a.d. 1945," Windsor Magazine, 1905
• "The Old Bligh" Ainslee's, 1909 Feb (ss)
• "A Comedy of Styles" Windsor Magazine, 1914
• "M.O.M." Windsor Magazine, 1914
• "Bully" Windsor Magazine, 1915
• "Mrs. Andrews's Control" Windsor Magazine, 1915
• "The Sea-Green Incorruptible" in Century Magazine, 1916
• "Smorfia" Windsor Magazine, 1915
• '"Through"' in Century Magazine, Jul 1917
• "Noblesse Oblige" Windsor 1917-18
• "The Outcast" Argosy All-Story Weekly 1922
• "Adjustments" Windsor Magazine, 1923
• "Corstophine" Munsey's, 1925 (Included in Spook Stories, 1928)
• "Buntingford Jugs" (ss) The Windsor Magazine Vol 63 1925-26
• "The Peerage Cure" (ss) The Windsor Magazine Vol 64 1926
• "Aunts and Pianos" (ss) The Windsor Magazine Vol 64 1926
• "The Queen of the Spa" (ss) The Windsor Magazine Vol 64 1926
• "When Greek Meets Greek" (ss) The Windsor Magazine Vol 65 1926-27
• "Dicky's Pain" (ss) The Windsor Magazine Vol 65 1926-27
• "The Disappearance of Jacob Conifer" (ss) The Windsor Magazine Vol 66 1927
• By the Sluice, The Tatler (25 March 1927)
• Sir Roger de Coverley, Woman (December 1927)
• The Woman in the Veil (1928)
• The Box at the Bank, Hutchinson's Magazine (March 1928)
• Pirates, Hutchinson's Magazine (October 1928)
• "The Hanging of Alfred Wadham" in Weird Tales, 14 (2) (August 1929) originally published in Britannia (December 21, 1928)
• "The Witch-Ball" in Weird Tales, 14 (4) (October 1929) (originally published in December 1928)
• Atmospherics, Radio Times (December 28, 1928)

Non-fiction

• "The Social Value of Golf" Everybody's 1901
• "The Heart of India" Century 1914
• "The Golden Temple of Amritsar" Century 1914
• "Dewan-i-Khas:The Hall of Private Audience" Century 1914 (romanticised history)

Works about Benson

• "Benson, Edward Frederic," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)