1. Stella Benson was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and travel writer.
13 Facts About Stella Benson
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Stella Benson was often ill during her childhood and throughout her life.
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Stella Benson spent some of her childhood in schools in Germany and Switzerland.
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Stella Benson began writing a diary at the age of 10 and kept it up for all of her life.
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When her father died, Stella Benson learned that he had been an alcoholic.
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Stella Benson published her first volume of poetry, Twenty, in 1918.
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Stella Benson then decided that she wanted to see the world, leaving England for the United States in June 1918.
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Stella Benson took on a job at the University of California as a tutor, then as an editorial reader for the university press.
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Stella Benson followed Anderson through various Customs postings including Nanning, Beihai, and Hong Kong, even though her writings on China sometimes put her at odds with the HM Revenue and Customs leadership.
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Stella Benson's writing continued, although none of her works is well known today.
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Stella Benson was a friend of Winifred Holtby and, through her, of Vera Brittain.
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Virginia Woolf knew Benson, and remarked in her diary after her death: 'A curious feeling: when a writer like Stella Benson dies, that one's response is diminished; Here and Now won't be lit up by her: its life lessened.
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Stella Benson died of pneumonia on 7 December 1933, at Ha Long in the Vietnamese province of Tonkin.