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The Benson Diary: I: 1885-1906; II: 1907-1925

The Benson Diary: I: 1885-1906; II: 1907-1925

Benson, A. C.
Duffy, Eamon
Hyam, Ronald

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $90.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 1, 2026

ISBN10: 184368277X
ISBN13: 9781843682776
Publisher: Pallas Athene
Published: Dec 1 2026
Pages: 1050
Language: English
The diary of A. C. Benson, poet and educationalist, illuminate a career at the heart of the Edwardian establishment, and a tortured private life. Introduction, footnotes, chronology.

A. C. Benson (1862-1925), novelist, poet (he wrote Land of Hope and Glory), educationalist and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, kept a voluminous diary for most of his life. Considered too controversial at the time, it was sealed up after his death. Only now, with the publication of this extensive selection, can his witty and acute judgements on people, institutions and issues - including Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Queen Victoria, Dean Inge, Balfour, Asquith, Eton and Cambridge - be fully appreciated. He paints an endlessly fascinating and often very funny picture of a public life at the heart of the Edwardian literary, educational, church and political establishments; but also of a private life riven by the pressures of unconsummated romantic attachments to young men, and by attacks of appalling depression, an illness then barely understood.

Historians Eamon Duffy and Ronald Hyam made this 300,000-word selection, adding a substantial introduction, footnotes, chronology, index and photographs. It is presented as two hardbacks in a slipcase.

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