![]() ![]() Their father E W Benson was the Archbishop of Canterbury and, following a failed marriage, was often brutish and cruel to his sons as if in revenge. ![]() The Benson brothers’ early life was as dramatic and sensational as the horror stories that they would later write. While ghost stories formed only a relatively small part of their collective output, it was the contribution that each brother made to the supernatural genre by the quality of their work that is most remarkable. ![]() Less well known but still of great interest are the three brothers A C, E F and R H Benson, born between 18, who between them managed a literary output consisting of over a hundred works of fiction and non-fiction, both short and long. The most famous case, of course, is the Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. The instance of there being two talented sibling writers in the same family is rare but for there to be three famous authors born to the same parents is truly exceptional. ![]()
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