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A Very Queer Family Indeed - Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain (Hardcover)
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A Very Queer Family Indeed - Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain (Hardcover)
Series: mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
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"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a
love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual
kind." So begins A Very Queer Family Indeed, which introduces us to
the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Benson became
Archbishop of Canterbury at the height of Queen Victoria's reign,
while his wife, Mary, was renowned for her wit and charm the prime
minister once wondered whether she was "the cleverest woman in
England or in Europe." The couple's six precocious children
included E. F. Benson, celebrated creator of the Mapp and Lucia
novels, and Margaret Benson, the first published female
Egyptologist. What interests Simon Goldhill most, however, is what
went on behind the scene, which was even more unusual than anyone
could imagine. Inveterate writers, the Benson family spun out
novels, essays, and thousands of letters that open stunning new
perspectives including what it might mean for an adult to kiss and
propose marriage to a twelve-year-old girl, how religion in a
family could support or destroy relationships, or how the death of
a child could be celebrated. No other family has left such detailed
records about their most intimate moments, and in these remarkable
accounts, we see how family life and a family's understanding of
itself took shape during a time when psychoanalysis, scientific and
historical challenges to religion, and new ways of thinking about
society were developing. This is the story of the Bensons, but it
is also more than that it is the story of how society transitioned
from the high Victorian period into modernity.
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