Male : Novelist. Father was headmaster of Wellington, and later became Archbishop of Canterbury. Brother of A C Benson. He lived in Lamb House, Rye, the former home of Henry James

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Wellington College

Date of Birth : 1867 Date of Death : 1940 Age : 73

Other Work : Archaeologist in Athens 1892-5. Mayor of Rye 1934-7

Education : Marlborough & King's College, Cambridge (Classics)

Heinemann unless stated
1888-1900
Sketches from Marlborough (1888 anon)
Dodo - A Detail of Today (1893 Methuen) - 2 vols
Six Common Things (1893 Osgood McIlvaine)
A Double Overture (1894 C H Sergei, Chicago)
The Rubicon (1894 Methuen) - 2 vols
The Judgment Books (1895 Osgood McIlvaine)
Limitations (1896 A D Innes, London)
The Babe BA (1896 Putnams NY) (1897 Putnam, London)
The Vintage (1898 Methuen)
The Money Market (1898 Arrowsmith)
The Capsina (1899 Methuen)
Mammon and Co (1899) (1899 Appleton)
The Princess Sophia (1900)

1901-1905
The Luck of the Vails (1901)
Scarlet and Hyssop (1902)
Aunt Jeannie (1902)
Daily Training (1902 Hurst & Blackett) - with Eustace Miles
Cricket of Abel, Hirst and Shrewsbury (1903 H & B) - with Eustace Miles
The Mad Annual (1903 Grant Richards) - with Eustace Miles
A Book of Golf (1903 H & B) - with Eustace Miles
The Book of Months (1903)
An Act in a Backwater (1903)
The Valkyries : A Romance founded on Wagner's Opera (1903 Dean) - T Noyes Lewis
The Relentless City (1903)
The Challoners (1904)
The Image in the Sand (1905)
The Angel of Pain (1905 Lippincott NY) (1906 Heinemann)
Diversions Day by Day (1905 H & B) - with Eustace Miles

1906-1910
Paul (1906)
The House of Defence (1906 Macleod & Allen)
The House of Defence (1907)
Sheaves (1907 Stanley Paul)
The Blotting Book (1908)
The Climber (1908)
English Figure-Skating (1908 Bell)
Skating Calls (1909 Bell)
A Reaping (1909)
Daisy's Aunt (1910 Nelson)
The Osbornes (1910 Smith, Elder)
Margery (1910 Doubleday NY) - retitled in UK as Juggernaut (1911)

1911-1915
Account Rendered (1911)
Mrs Eames (1912 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Room in the Tower & Other Stories (1912 Mills & Boon)
Bensoniana : Maxims of E F Benson (1912 Siegle Hill Watteau series)
Bensoniana (1912 A L Humphreys)
Thoughts from E F Benson (ed by Elsie E Morton) (1913 Harrap Sesame Booklets)
The Weaker Vessel (1913)
Thorley Weir (1913)
Winter Sports in Switzerland (1913 George Allen)
Dodo's Daughter (1913 Century Co, NY)
Dodo the Second (1914 H & S) - re-titling of above title
Arundel (1914 Unwin)
The Oakleyites (1915 Hodder & Stoughton)
Dinner for Eight (1915)

1916-1920
David Blaize (1916 Hodder & Stoughton)
Thoughts from E F Benson (edited by H B Elliott) (1916 Holden & Hardingham)
Mike (1916 Cassell)
The Freaks of Mayfair (1916 Foulis) - George Plank
Mr Teddy (1917 Unwin)
An Autumn Sowing (1917 Collins)
Deutschland Uber Allah (1917 H & S)
Crescent and Iron Cross (1918 H & S)
The White Eagle of Poland (1918 H & S)
Poland and Mittel-Europa (1918 H & S)
David Blaize and the Blue Door (1918 H & S) - H J Ford
Up and Down (1918 Hutchinson)
Across the Stream (1919 John Murray)
Robin Linnet (1919 H & S)
The Social Value of Temperance (1919 True Temperance Assoc)
Our Family Affairs 1867-1896 (1920 Cassell)
Queen Lucia (1920 Hutchinson)
The Countess of Lowndes Square & Other Stories (1920 Cassell)

1921-1925
Dodo Wonders (1921 Hutchinson)
Lovers and Friends (1921 Unwin)
Miss Mapp (1922 Hutchinson)
Peter (1922 Cassell)
Colin : A Novel (1923 Hutchinson)
Visible and Invisible (1923 Hutchinson 7/6) (1924 Doran)
"And the Dead Spake" & The Horror Horn (1923 Doran NY)
Expiation & Naboth's Vineyard (1924 Doran NY)
The Face (1924 Doran NY)
David of King's (1924 Hodder & Stoughton)
Alan (1924 Fisher Unwin)
Colin II : A Novel (1925 Hutchinson)
Mother (1925 H & S)
The Temple (1925 Doran NY)
A Tale of an Empty House & Bagnell Terrace (1925 Doran NY)
Rex (1925 H & S)

1926-1930
Mezzanine (1926 Cassell)
Pharisees and Publicans (1926 Hutchinson)
Lucia in London (1927 Hutchinson)
Sir Francis Drake (1927 John Lane, The Bodley Head)
The Life of Alcibiades (1928 Ernest Benn)
From Abraham to Christ (1928 Warburton Lecture)
Spook Stories (1928 Hutchinson)
Paying Guests (1929 Hutchinson)
The Male Impersonator (1929 Elkin Mathews) - 530 copies signed
Ferdinand Magellan (1929 JL, The BH)
Henry James : Letters to A C Benson (1930 Elkin Mathews & Marrot)
As We Were : A Victorian Peepshow (1930 Longmans)
The Inheritor (1930 Hutchinson) (1930 US)
The Step (1930 H V Marrot)

1931-1935
Mapp and Lucia (1931 H & S)
Secret Lives (1932 H & S)
More Spook Stories (1932 Hutchinson)
As We Are : A Modern Revue (1932 Longmans)
Charlotte Bronte (1932 Longmans)
Travail of Gold (1933 H & S)
King Edward VII (1933 Longmans)
The Outbreak of War 1914 (1933 Peter Davies)
Ravens' Brood (1934 Arthur Barker)
Lucia's Progress (1935 Hodder & Stoughton)
All About Lucia (1935 Doubleday NY)
Queen Victoria (1935 Longmans, NY)
Queen Victoria (1935 Longmans, London)

AFTER 1936
The Kaiser and English Relations (1936 Longmans)
Old London (1937 Appleton-Century)
Queen Victoria's Daughters (1938 Appleton-Century, NY)
Daughters of Queen Victoria (1938 Cassell) - re-titling of above
Trouble for Lucia (1939 Hodder & Stoughton)
Offered in 1999 for £325
Final Edition : An Informal Autobiography (1940 Longmans)
The Horror Horn (1974 Panther)
The Flint Knife : Further Spook Stories (1988 Equation, Wellingborough)
Desirable Residences and Other Stories (1991 OUP)
Fine Feathers & Other Stories (1994 OUP)

READING
David Williams : Genesis and Exodus - A Portrait of the Benson Family (1979 Hamish Hamilton)
Cynthia and Tony Reavell : E F Benson - Mr Benson Remembered in Rye and in the World of Tilling
(c1984 Martello Bookshop, Rye) - 102pp
Geoffrey Palmer & Noel Lloyd : E F Benson - As He Was (1988 Lennard, Luton)
Brian Masters : The Life of E F Benson (1991 Chatto & Windus)