Stella Benson (1) (1892–1933)
Auteur van Living Alone
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Werken van Stella Benson
CHRISTMAS FORMULA AND OTHER STORIES With a Frontispiece by Clare Leighton and a Foreword by Geoffrey West: Being No. 11… (1932) 6 exemplaren
Collected Short Stories 2 exemplaren
The awakening, a fantasy 2 exemplaren
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- 1892-01-06
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1933-12-06
- Graflocatie
- Ile de Charbon, Vietnam
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Groot-Brittannië
- Geboorteplaats
- Lutwyche Hall, Shropshire, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Honkai, Vietnam
- Woonplaatsen
- London, England, UK
California, USA
Hong Kong
Nanning, China
Germany
Pakhoi, China (toon alle 7)
Switzerland - Beroepen
- novelist
travel writer
social worker
tutor
editorial reader
feminist (toon alle 7)
poet - Relaties
- Cholmondeley, Mary (aunt)
Holtby, Winifred (friend) - Korte biografie
- Stella Benson was born at Lutwyche Hall in Shropshire, England, to a landed gentry family. Her maternal aunt Mary Cholmondeley was a well-known novelist. She spent some of her childhood at schools in Germany and Switzerland and began writing a diary at age 10. She spent the winter of 1913–1914 in the West Indies, which provided material for her first novel, I Pose (1915). On her return to England, she became involved in charitable work in London and active in the women's suffrage movement. During World War I, she wrote the novels This Is the End (1917) and Living Alone (1919), and published her first volume of poetry, Twenty (1918). After the war, she went traveling in the USA, meeting American writers. She took various jobs, including as a tutor at the University of California and as an editorial reader for the university press. Her California experiences inspired her next novel The Poor Man (1922). In 1920, she went to China, where she worked in a mission school and hospital and met her husband, James O'Gorman Anderson, an Anglo-Irish officer in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. She accompanied Anderson to various postings in Asia and continued to write, although none of her works are well known today. Her late novel The Far-Away Bride, published in the USA in 1930, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for English writers in 1932. She died the following year at age 41 of pneumonia.
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I Pose completely falls apart when the characters alight on a Caribbean island that is an English colony. This is the most racist book I have ever encountered—it makes Tarzan of the Apes and Penrod look real good. Reading this novel, I felt unclean. I don’t really want to get into the details, but I will say, I think a lot of times people have this idea that racist English people from a century ago were just old-fashioned but meant no harm; it was all kind of a misunderstanding, god love ‘em. I Pose makes it clear that this rosy assessment is not the case—one hundred years ago, racists hated black people with vicious cruelty and made fun of everything they could think of about them and literally did not care if they lived or died.
There was a kinda interesting part at the end where the suffragette goes into a poor neighborhood in London and tries to get the women to unionize, leave their alcoholic and abusive husbands, etc. but all her schemes backfire. This bit seemed heartfelt and true to life. Now I’m going to go ahead and spoil the ending, since I don’t recommend this book anyway. The gardener and the suffragette decide to get married, but instead, the suffragette shouts, “I hate god!” and runs into the church and blows it up, killing herself. The end. What??
I looked up Stella Benson on Wikipedia to see what was her deal, anyway, and it turns out she was a feminist and a suffragette (it wasn’t clear from the novel which side she was on) and that she lived all over the world, including China and Vietnam. From her bio I would think oh, I can’t wait to read a book by this neglected woman writer but having read this novel I say, never again, Stella Benson, you deserve to be forgotten.
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