BENSON (Edward Frederick, 1867-1940, Novelist & Scholar, Author of the 'Mapp & Lucia' novels)

Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent, saying that he has "a novel called 'The Climber' coming out in America in January (it has already appeared in England) and another beginning in the Cornhill in July of next year, serially ...", 1 side 8vo., 102 Oakley Street, Chelsea, 12th December

'The Climber' is one of Benson's many tales of an ambitious woman bent on achieving social prominence. It is interesting to see him working on this formula prior to writing his crowning comic achievement, the Lucia series. The Cornhill Magazine(1860–1975) was a Victorian magazine and literary journal named after the publisher's address at 65 Cornhill in London. It serialised the works of the foremost writers of the time.

Item Date:  1908

Stock No:  39161      £175

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