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.
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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.
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.