Nellie Benson
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Nellie Benson (Mary Eleanor Benson, 1863-1890) was the daughter of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his wife Mary Benson.
She attended Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
- "Although also an avid sportswoman, excelling in tennis and a member of a lady's cricket team, she was not one of the notorious "new women," who challenged Victorian mores."[1]
She observed the lives of working-class women in Lambeth, and her observations were published posthumously as Streets and Lanes of the City[2]
Towards the end of her short life, Nellie had an affair with her mother's former lover, the composer Ethel Smyth.[3]
References
- ↑ https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-823004261/lambeth-women-speak-urban-poverty-and-religion-in Nancy Fix Anderson, "Lambeth Women Speak: Urban Poverty and Religion in Nellie Benson's London" in Anglican and Episcopal History,, June 2003
- ↑ Republished as Lambeth Women Speak: Urban Poverty and Religion in Nellie Benson's London
- ↑ Martha Vicinus, Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004) page 134.
