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Edward Frederic Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. July 1867 – 29. February 1940
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Queen Lucia
Queen Lucia
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Queen Lucia
Queen Lucia
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Famous E. F. Benson Quotes

“THOUGH the sun was hot on this July morning Mrs Lucas preferred to cover the half-mile that lay between the station and her house on her own brisk feet, and sent on her maid and her luggage in the fly that her husband had ordered to meet her.”

E. F. Benson book Queen Lucia

. p. 7.
Queen Lucia (1920)

“The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other”

E. F. Benson book Queen Lucia

Source: Queen Lucia (1920), p. 43.

“Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic, but we'll hope for the best.”

E. F. Benson book Queen Lucia

Source: Queen Lucia (1920), p. 222.

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