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The great unknown romance of writer E.F. Benson’s life – Fred and George, a love story hidden in letters

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par Sasha Garwood, Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham

In 1915, Edward Frederic (E.F.) Benson – the future bestselling author of comic novel series Mapp and Lucia – was in his late 40s, popular and famously charming. Since adolescence he’d been drawn to men, and his diaries recount passionate romances at Marlborough College and King’s College Cambridge. But, perhaps unsurprisingly for the son of an Archbishop of Canterbury, he was discreet.

George…

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