Eugene Benson

Standard Name: Benson, Eugene

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Dedications Julia Constance Fletcher
Kismet was a copyrighted title in the UK. JCF dedicated the book to T.G.A, H.M.B, and E.B. (Thomas Gold Appleton , her mother , and her stepfather ).
Cooke, Neil, editor. Journeys Erased by Time. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2019.
179
It was reviewed in England...
Family and Intimate relationships Julia Constance Fletcher
JCF's stepfather, Eugene Benson , was an American painter whose work was popular among the English expatriate community of Venice. He died in 1908.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Vintage Books, 1990.
129
Occupation Julia Constance Fletcher
On these travels Fletcher served as amanuensis to Appleton : his book Nile Journal, 1876, appeared as dictated to her, with illustrations by Eugene Benson ; his Syrian Sunshine followed the next year.
Cooke, Neil, editor. Journeys Erased by Time. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2019.
179
Publishing Julia Constance Fletcher
JCF's stepfather Eugene Benson published (with Roberts of Boston) a book about an illustrious woman poet of the Italian Renaissance, Gaspara Stampa , with a selection from her sonnets translated into English by George Fleming.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Travel Julia Constance Fletcher
JCF, her mother , and stepfather , embarked on a Nile trip in the dahabiya Rachel with Thomas Gold Appleton , a sixty-two-year-old American and addicted traveller whom Eugene Benson had met in Venice.
Cooke, Neil, editor. Journeys Erased by Time. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2019.
178-9
Hale, Susan, editor. Life and Letters of Thomas Gold Appleton. D. Appleton and Company, 1885.
329-31

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Texts

Benson, Eugene. J. M. Synge. Macmillan, 1982.