{"product_id":"the-benson-diary-a-c-benson-9781843682776","title":"The Benson Diary: I: 1885-1906; II: 1907-1925","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe diary of A. C. Benson, poet and educationalist, illuminate a career at the heart of the Edwardian establishment, and a tortured private life. Introduction, footnotes, chronology.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA. C. Benson (1862-1925), novelist, poet (he wrote \u003ci\u003eLand of Hope and Glory\u003c\/i\u003e), educationalist and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, kept a voluminous diary for most of his life. Considered too controversial at the time, it was sealed up after his death. Only now, with the publication of this extensive selection, can his witty and acute judgements on people, institutions and issues - including Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Queen Victoria, Dean Inge, Balfour, Asquith, Eton and Cambridge - be fully appreciated. He paints an endlessly fascinating and often very funny picture of a public life at the heart of the Edwardian literary, educational, church and political establishments; but also of a private life riven by the pressures of unconsummated romantic attachments to young men, and by attacks of appalling depression, an illness then barely understood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHistorians Eamon Duffy and Ronald Hyam made this 300,000-word selection, adding a substantial introduction, footnotes, chronology, index and photographs. It is presented as two hardbacks in a slipcase.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. C. Benson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 184368277X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781843682776\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pallas Athene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"A. C. Benson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47039952093439,"sku":"9781843682776","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5bae7015-5696-4919-830b-a1508a16f565.jpg?v=1752753107","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-benson-diary-a-c-benson-9781843682776","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}