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Daisy's Aunt Kindle Edition

by E. F. Benson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
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E. F. Benson was the perfect man to write about Edwardian high society, intelligent, handsome and well connected, here is a classic example of him bringing his wit and keen eye to skewer the characters and situations that seemed important to the privileged. This book was originally published under the title The Fascinating Mrs. Halton in 1910. We are republishing this classic works with a new introductory biography of the author.
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    114 pages
  2. Language
    English
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    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publisher
    White Press
  5. Publication date
    April 24, 2015
  6. File size
    319 KB
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About the Author

Edward Frederic "E. F." Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer.E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, the fifth child of the headmaster, Edward White Benson (later Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, Bishop of Truro and Archbishop of Canterbury), and Mary Sidgwick Benson ("Minnie").

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00WMII7V2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ White Press (April 24, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 24, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 319 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 114 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1548317136
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings

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Martha E Ruderman
4.0 out of 5 stars Another Interesting Benson Novel
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2013
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While the method that Daisy's aunt uses to resolve a difficult problem may be debatable, Benson's lyrical descriptions are wonderful and worth the read all by themselves. I highly recommend this for readers who are interested in late 19th and early 20th century British novels.
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Pentiumm
5.0 out of 5 stars A Victoria melodrama, not social satire like Ms. Mapp.
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2010
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Daisy is a lovely, young society girl, outgoing and popular with men. She has just decided to accept the (obviously) approaching offer of marriage from one titled beaux, and she is the envy of all at making such a suitable match.

Her joy is compounded with the news that her aunt would be arriving home after a year spent traveling abroad to recover from a personal tragedy. Daisy simply adores her aunt, a woman only 10 years older than Daisy but who had taken Daisy in and raised her after the death of her parents.

The aunt arrives in London and learns just to whom Daisy is about to become engage. The aunt is horrified (for reasons unknown to the rest of society) and sets out to prevent the marriage. For silly Victorian reasons, the aunt decides that the best way to accomplish this is to pursue the beaux and make him fall in love with her (the aunt).

The majority of the book is spent on the aunt's various stratagems and justifications of the above action - she is a virtuous and decent woman who is only doing this in the best interest of Daisy.

Overall, this was a Victorian melodrama. If you're looking for social satire or the penetrating wit of Miss Mapp or Queen Lucia (as I was), you won't find it in this story.

It's as if someone else wrote a story and published it under E.F. Benson's name. I gave it 5 stars because it is well written, paced, and plotted for the type of story it is. That I don't particularly care for this type of story is a personal issue that I didn't think should be reflected in the rating. It's not the author's/book's fault that I don't like this genre and would have never downloaded it if there were a plot synopsis available.
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Sue Maj
3.0 out of 5 stars Sweet little Benson story
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2012
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If you love Mapp and Lucia, you will love this short story by E.F. Benson.Very sweet and very much in his style.
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Bree
2.0 out of 5 stars Unless you have extremely good vision you will be struggling
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2015
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Reader be warned. The print in this book is so small that I found it a difficult task to read even with strong glasses. Unless you have extremely good vision you will be struggling. Really unfair.
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Mj
4.0 out of 5 stars different times
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2013
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I did like this, although it was hard to believe that people were once so strict. Daisy's Aunt did something to save her niece. Why she just didn't tell her is something I can't fathom. But still a sweet book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Glad to find this
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2012
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Fans of EF Benson from his Lucia series will enjoy this story- many of the same tropes of upper middle class life in a vanished English countryside. His descriptions of the characters motives and doings are priceless.
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Annie G
3.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't compare to the Mapp and Lucia stories
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2014
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Attitudes a bit dated and hard to relate to, otherwise an entertaining story.
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Emma Lemmon
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2016
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I love E.F. Benson and writing of "older" British society so this was my "cup of tea."
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C. Herron
3.0 out of 5 stars this one probably wont blow you away
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 29, 2014
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I wouldn't read this one again, I'm wondering really why I invested so much time reading it once, I kept waiting for it to heat up, but it never really did
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Mondoro
5.0 out of 5 stars enjoyable
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 24, 2012
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I really enjoyed this story - although this novel is a long way from being as good as this author's famous Mapp and Lucia novels the characters are engaging and people the reader comes to genuinely care about. Of course the story is very dated but that is part of its charm. A great deal of the fascination in reading this is that, although it was written not that long ago, things have changed so much in Britain these are people whose worries and concerns differ from anything we are likely to encounter.fjs.
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Leonard Bainton
3.0 out of 5 stars OK
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 10, 2013
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The story was flat. It has little modern day interest. The characters seemed to have very little connection with modern life.
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Peanut
2.0 out of 5 stars Not one of Benson's best I'm afraid
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 21, 2014
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Not one of Benson's best I'm afraid. The actions of Daisy's aunt (who, while she's engaged to someone else, decides to try to lure away her niece's lover simply to cast him off herself) are held to be amazingly noble and praiseworthy, but I think they are despicable and low.
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Brad
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 20, 2016
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Such a novel couldn't be written nowadays! Standards have changed so much in the last hundred years as to become practically non-existent. For those who like a gentle love story with a happy ending this is highly recommended.
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