Stella Benson

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Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English novelist, poet and travel writer, born in Easthope, Shropshire, on 6 January 1892. A feminist who supported women's suffrage, she was the niece of the novelist Mary Cholmondeley. Her debut novel, I Pose, appeared in 1915, followed by the poetry collection Twenty in 1918. Her 1919 novel Living Alone, published by Macmillan, is a fantasy set in wartime London. Her travels in the United States and China shaped later works, including The Poor Man (1922) and the travel book The Little World (1925). Her novel The Far-Away Bride (published in Britain as Tobit Transplanted) won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize in 1932. After her death from pneumonia in Tonkin on 7 December 1933, Macmillan published the unfinished novel Mundos and a selection of her poems in 1935, and her Collected Stories appeared in 1936.

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• Living Alone (1919) · Living Alone Core Canon

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• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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