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Tom Crewe: The Unrelenting Bensons, 20 April 2017
A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
by Simon Goldhill.
Chicago, 337 pp., £24.50, October 2016,978 0 226 39378 0 Show More
by Simon Goldhill.
Chicago, 337 pp., £24.50, October 2016,
“... know what fun it is.”’ Finding his father out was something Arthur spent a lifetime failing to do. The dream he recorded in his diary in 1916 at the age of 53 is poignant because it made a travesty of his most deep-seated anxieties, as if in that moment – but only in that moment – it could neutralise their sting. It’s nice to think of your father ... ”