Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by E. F. Benson (English Novelist, Biographer)

E. F. Benson (1867–1940,) fully Edward Frederic Benson, was an English novelist, memoirist, archaeologist, biographer, and short story writer. He was noted particularly for a series of comic novels featuring the characters Mapp and Lucia.

Born in Wellington College, Berkshire, England, Benson was the son of Archbishop Edward White Benson. He was the brother of writers A. C. Benson and Robert Hugh Benson and the Egyptologist Margaret Benson.

E. F. Benson was educated at Marlborough School and King’s College-Cambridge. After graduation, he worked for the British School of Archaeology in Athens 1892–95 and later for the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies in Egypt.

Benson is best remembered are his satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical analyses of Edwardian and Georgian society. In 1893, he published Dodo, a novel that attracted wide attention. It was followed by several other successful novels—Mrs. Ames (1912,) Queen Lucia (1920,) Miss Mapp (1922,) and Lucia in London (1927)—and books on a wide range of subjects, totaling nearly 100. Among them were biographies of Queen Victoria, Prime Minister William Gladstone, and Emperor William II of Germany.

In 1938, Benson became an honorary fellow of Magdalene College-Cambridge. His memoirs are As We Were (1930,) As We Are (1932,) and Final Edition (1940.)

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When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
E. F. Benson
Topics: Happiness

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
E. F. Benson
Topics: Honesty

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