#E.F.Benson

[cozy4countrycottages]

Lamb House,the home of American mystery novelist Henry James AND the English novelist E.F.Benson,writer of the Mapp & Lucia series

Lamb House,West Street, Rye, East Sussex,England TN31 7ES

#Henry James #E.F.Benson #Literary Residences #National Trust Properties #Rye #East Sussex #England

[driftlessarearev]

Forgotten Classics: The Freaks of Mayfair (1916) by E.F. Benson

Via An infrequent feature on classic books forgotten to the mists of time. E.F. Benson (1867—1940) was the eccentric child of the Archbishop of Canterbury. A prolific writer, he’s most well known for the Mapp and Lucia series. In the literary constellation of British wit, he stands beside the likes of Evelyn Waugh and P.G. Wodehouse. (And, to a lesser degree, Saki and Jerome K. Jerome.) Full…

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#1916 #book reviews #books #comedy #E.F.Benson #fiction #gay #Hogarth Press #LGBT #novel #religion #UK #UK fiction

[lamilanomagazine]

Milano: Night Terrors con Gerard Logan al Teatro Menotti

Milano: Night Terrors con Gerard Logan al Teatro Menotti. Dopo i tutto-esaurito ottenuti al Fringe festival di Edimburgo (2011, 2015, 2016) e in seguito in tutta la Gran Bretagna con i pluripremiati “The Rape of Lucrece” e “Wilde Without the Boy / The Ballad of Reading Gaol”, Gerard Logan arriva al Teatro Menotti il 13 e 14 marzo con "Night Terrors. The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson". Il nuovo spettacolo si concentra su tre dei racconti sul soprannaturale tratte dalla celebre raccolta di E.F.Benson Night Terrors. Da eccellente uomo di spettacolo, Gerard Logan guida lo spettatore nel mondo oscuro e inquietante dell’imprevisto e dell’inspiegabile. I tre racconti (“The Dance”, “In The Tube”, “The Confession of Charles Linkworth”), risultano altamente drammatici, ossessivi e indimenticabili. Lo spettacolo sarà in lingua inglese con sovratitoli in italiano. ORARI BIGLIETTERIA Dal lunedì al venerdì dalle ore 11.30 alle ore 18.30, dalle 19.00 alle 20.00 solo nei giorni di spettacolo Sabato dalle 15 alle 18.30, dalle 19.00 alle 20.00 solo nei giorni di spettacolo Domenica ore 14.30 | 16.00 solo nei giorni di spettacolo Acquisti online Con carta di credito su http://www.teatromenotti.org  ... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

[anonymoushouseplantfan]

I think there is a difference between social climbing and wanting to better your station. Everyone wants to better their station in life and wants better for their children. It’s universal. If you go about bettering your station through using people, discarding people that have helped you succeed, ghosting people that gave you a leg up, etc., that’s social climbing in my view. Clearly the Middletons are in one camp and Meghan is in the other.

I think social climbing and using people are different. You can climb up and not discard people. Carole hasn’t, as far as I know.

And I just remembered my favorite social climbing book, E.F.Benson’s Lucia stories. Now that’s social climbing as an Olympic sport.

https://archive.org/details/mapplucia0000bens

The best one is Lucia in London, imo. Her husband receives and inheritance and she moves to London and slowly climbs her way up.

https://www.amazon.com/Lucia-London-Mapp-F-Benson-ebook/dp/B08914D314/

[frimleyblogger]

Book Corner – April 2019 (4)

Book Corner – April 2019 (4)

Miss Marjoribanks – Margaret Oliphant

This was a curious book and definitely one of two halves. Published in 1866 but serialised by Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine from February 1865, my edition helpfully had the break points for each instalment and I read each in one sitting to get a sense of how the original reader may have experienced what is Oliphant’s fifth of six stories set in the…

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#Anthony Trollope #Barbara Lake #Blackwood&039;s Edinburgh Magazine #Carol Kennicott #E.F.Benson #Lucilla Marjoribanks #Main Street #Mapp and Lucia #Margaret Oliphant #Miss Marjoribanks #Sinclair Lewis #The Chronicles of Carlingford

[honourablejester]

For the Halloween Questions: 2, 4, 5, 10, 14, 26, 40, 46, 49 (no obligation to answer everyone of them tho ;))

Okay, before I start this I feel I should explain about me and belief. Namely that I'm fundamentally not very good at it. Heh. I don't really believe in much of anything, but I acknowledge the possibility of a lot of things, and some ideas I'm a lot more fond of than others. Although I do tend to be superstitious in odd and not-very-logical ways as well.

2 - What's the weirdest thing you own?

I'm actually not sure how to answer this, in that I'm not sure what counts as 'weird'. I have small collections of stone frogs, glass bottles, and for a while I used to collect single earrings I found in the road, which presumably people lost after nights out. I'm a magpie. I like shiny things. And frogs.

4 - Do you believe in ghosts?

This is one of those 'I acknowledge the possibility' ones. My entire family does, though, and at least three of them claim to have seen things, even in our house. So, if ghosts do exist, I seem to be someone they go out of their way to avoid?

5 - Have you ever had an encounter with things that go 'bump in the night'?

Not personally. My sister and my mother are adamant that there's a ghost in the house they call 'the crawling man', but I've never seen him. I do feel odd things at times, like someone watching me, but I'm so easily startled by things it's as likely my nerves as anything else.

10 - Most interesting serial killer?

I'm rather fascinating by a few pre-20th century killers, just for the difference in interpretation of them. Also, I'm slightly easier about my fascination when the crimes are a bit further back in time. Some interesting ones are Belle Gunness (America, 19th/early 20th century, lonely hearts killer), Amelia Dyer (England, 19th century, baby farmer, utterly horrifying), Gilles de Rais (French, 16th century, fought with Jeanne d'Arc), and Peter Stumpp (Germany, 16th century, supposed werewolf)

14 - Favourite ghost story?

I actually have a giant book of classic ghost stories (Ghost: 100 Stories to Read with the Lights On, edited by Louise Welsh) which I adore. Ghosts are my favourite fictional monster, mostly because they scare me the most. I quite like 'The Room in the Tower' by E.F.Benson, although you can argue it's actually an early vampire story either. Film-wise I really like 'The Innocents' (1961) and 'The Haunting' (1963). Also 'The Conjuring' for a more modern one, because I quite like paranormal investigation stories. Also, for an anime, 'Ghost Hunt' is a lot of fun.

26 - Do you live near any spooky places?

Well, there's the castle, obviously, and there's a manor house about an hour away that has a whole story attached about a scorch mark in the hall from the devil playing cards there

40 - Do you believe in multiple dimensions or worlds?

I really, really like this idea. It's plausible and I hope it's true.  

46 - Do you believe in curses?

I am somewhat superstitious, in a 'touch wood and never push your luck' sort of way. I'm not sure about curses, though. Hmm. Possibly? I tend to think you can call bad luck upon yourself. I don't know if I believe that a person has enough influence over the world to actively call bad luck down on someone else, though. Though, a malice big enough to draw attention to itself ... I'm not sure. I think I mostly don't believe in it? It's one of those things I might be superstitious enough not to push, though.

49 - Have you ever caught a photo of a ghost?

Nope. Possibly reincarnation, but never ghosts. There's this photo of my ... I think she's my great, great aunt? ... and she has this dog with her, and he is literally identical to a stray dog we wound up taking in for a decade. Mam thinks Tippy was somehow following the family, that his little doggy soul was trying to stay close to us. I honestly wouldn't put it past the little bugger. He was a warlock, that dog.

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E.F.Benson in 1889

[legendaryloverinternet-blog]

It is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else.. because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing.

E.F.Benson

[jillbeys]

"It is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else.. because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing." —E.F.Benson 🌊🌅😍👌✨ 📷@manongbalbon (at Paradise in the North -Jomalig Island)

[sunflowerboness-blog]

It is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else.. because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing.    

E.F.Benson