As good as God, as clever as the devil
Subtitle: the impossible life of Mary Benson
By: Rodney Bolt
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Bath]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9781445871165; 9781445871172
Subjects: Bishops' spouses; Biography; Lesbians; Large type books; Évêques; Biographies; Conjoints; Lesbiennes; Livres en gros caractères; Large print books
Description: "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.
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: London : Atlantic, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.