Young Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin,
twenty-three-year old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853.
Edward went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie
- as Mary Benson - to preside a social world that ranged from
Tennyson, Henry James and Oscar Wilde to foreign royalty and Queen
Victoria herself. Yet Mrs Benson's most intense relationships were
not with her husband and his associates, but with other women. When
the Archbishop died, Mary - 'Ben' to her intimates - turned down an
offer from the Queen to live at Windsor, and set up home in a
Jacobean manor house with her friend Lucy Tait. As Good as God, as
Clever as the Devil, is the sometimes touching, sometimes
hilarious, story of one lovable, brilliant woman and her trajectory
through the often surprising opportunities and the remarkable
limitations of a Victorian woman's life.
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