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Theodora Benson
Eleanor Theodora Roby Benson (21 August 1906 – 25 December 1968) was an English writer.
Benson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, the daughter of Godfrey Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood. She went to school at Queen's College and Cheltenham Ladies' College. She studied Malay at the School of Oriental Studies in Bloomsbury, London.
Benson published her first novel, Salad Days, in 1928. She dedicated it to Betty Askwith, her friend and future collaborator. Country Life wrote that it "marked her out as a writer whose humour and freshness were as delightful as her outlook was sane and modern".
Benson's early novels in particular were highly praised. She also wrote short fiction (including thrillers and tales of the macabre), travel books, and an edited collection. She also contributed to publications such as "Woman to Woman", Country Life, and Lilliput. Benson admired Evelyn Waugh, who contributed to Benson's The First Time I… among the likes of Rose Macauley, Louis Golding, and Antonia White.
With Betty Askwith, Benson wrote three humorous books: Foreigners, or the World in a Nutshell; Muddling Through, or Britain in a Nutshell; and How to Succeed, or The Great in Nutshells. While the pair were in their twenties, they also collaborated on the novels Lobster Quadrille and Seven Basketfuls.
During World War II, Benson worked as a ghost speechwriter in the Ministry of Information.
The collection Best Stories of Theodora Benson was published in 1940. The Spectator wrote:
Miss Theodora Benson presents us with her best short stories, wherein she skips amusingly enough over the face of the globe east and west, and at her ease everywhere. The tales are slick with slickly, amusing dialogue and heroines of magazine-cover looks. But gentleness can be glimpsed sometimes under the Vogue allure.
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Theodora Benson
Eleanor Theodora Roby Benson (21 August 1906 – 25 December 1968) was an English writer.
Benson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, the daughter of Godfrey Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood. She went to school at Queen's College and Cheltenham Ladies' College. She studied Malay at the School of Oriental Studies in Bloomsbury, London.
Benson published her first novel, Salad Days, in 1928. She dedicated it to Betty Askwith, her friend and future collaborator. Country Life wrote that it "marked her out as a writer whose humour and freshness were as delightful as her outlook was sane and modern".
Benson's early novels in particular were highly praised. She also wrote short fiction (including thrillers and tales of the macabre), travel books, and an edited collection. She also contributed to publications such as "Woman to Woman", Country Life, and Lilliput. Benson admired Evelyn Waugh, who contributed to Benson's The First Time I… among the likes of Rose Macauley, Louis Golding, and Antonia White.
With Betty Askwith, Benson wrote three humorous books: Foreigners, or the World in a Nutshell; Muddling Through, or Britain in a Nutshell; and How to Succeed, or The Great in Nutshells. While the pair were in their twenties, they also collaborated on the novels Lobster Quadrille and Seven Basketfuls.
During World War II, Benson worked as a ghost speechwriter in the Ministry of Information.
The collection Best Stories of Theodora Benson was published in 1940. The Spectator wrote:
Miss Theodora Benson presents us with her best short stories, wherein she skips amusingly enough over the face of the globe east and west, and at her ease everywhere. The tales are slick with slickly, amusing dialogue and heroines of magazine-cover looks. But gentleness can be glimpsed sometimes under the Vogue allure.