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Jory Berg Alexander is beautiful, talented, cultured, refined and well educated - a sophisticated young San Francisco socialite and a recent graduate of the oldest and most prestigious all-girls boarding school in the Maryland hunt country. She is also an accomplished equestrian who received national recognition at a young age. Her passion for riding consumes every aspect of her life, and nothing can derail her plans for success - until she me...

Jory Berg Alexander is beautiful, talented, cultured, refined and well educated - a sophisticated young San Francisco socialite and a recent graduate of the oldest and most prestigious all-girls boarding school in the Maryland hunt country. She is also an accomplished equestrian who received national recognition at a young age. Her passion for riding consumes every aspect of her life, and nothing can derail her plans for success - until she me...

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In Pull Devil, Pull Baker, Stella Benson presents the memoirs of a vagabond former Russian nobleman she met in a Shanghai pauper's ward, but with an accompanying commentary that questions the truth of anyone's memories in a strikingly contemporary and post-modern way. This is the first reissue of the book since its publication over 90 years ago.

Living Alone (1919) is a novel by Stella Benson. Considered a pioneering work of fantasy fiction, Living Alone is a story of magic set in London during the First World War. Benson's meditative, diaristic prose guides the reader alongside her protagonist, a young woman introduced to a world of witchcraft and wizardry at "the House of Living Alone." "Nothing else happened in that room. At least nothing more important than the ordinary manifestat...

Inspired by the suffering experienced by Britain’s poor and working-class communities during the First World War, Sarah Brown dedicates herself to charity work, but ultimately feels unfulfilled. When a mysterious woman invites her to “the House of Living Alone, ” she unwittingly enters a fantastic world of witchcraft and wizardry. Living Alone is a novel by Stella Benson.

Desperate to escape her overbearing guardians, orphan Jay Martin—formerly Jane Elizabeth—moves to London in order to live among the city’s working-class community. When her brother Kew, a returning veteran, comes looking for her, she begs him to keep her address secret from their prying aunt and uncle. This Is the End is a novel by Stella Benson.

Stella Benson (6 January 1892 - 7 December 1933) was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and travel writer. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal. Benson spent the winter of 1913-14 in the West Indies, which provided material for her first novel, I Pose (1915). Living in London, she became involved in women's suffrage, as had her older female relatives. During World War I, she supported the troops by gardening and by helping poor women in L...

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Twenty (1918) is a poetry collection by Stella Benson. Largely recognized for her work as an activist in the women's suffrage movement and for her popular novels, Benson was also an accomplished poet. Twenty, her debut volume, is a collection indebted to symbolism in which Benson reflects on her experiences as a young woman in a rapidly changing world. In "The Secret Day, " Benson muses on the impossibility of peace in a time that refuses to s...

This Is the End (1917) is a novel by Stella Benson. Based on the author's experience in the movement for women's suffrage, This Is the End is a story of identity and social class set in the London neighborhood of Hackney. As Jay attempts to break from her restrictive past, her brother Kew returns from the First World War scarred by his experiences and disillusioned with life at home. Benson's meditative, diaristic prose guides the reader along...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

In the spring of 1916, we meet orphaned sister and brother Jay and Kew Martin in London. Jay (real name Jane Elizabeth) has run away from her strange, claustrophobic, interfering, well-heeled family to the simplicities of the Brown Borough (otherwise Hackney), to live amongst its working-class people, to a job as a bus conductor, and to discover her own wild self. Kew is on recuperative leave from the War, and manages to find Jay in her humble...

Stella Benson (1892-1933) was an English feminist, novelist, poet and travel writer whose father was a member of the landed gentry and whose aunt on her mother's side, Mary Cholmondeley, was a well-known novelist. Suffering ill-health in childhood (which persisted throughout her life), she attended schools in Germany and Switzerland and from the age of 10 began writing a diary which she kept up all her life. She spent the winter of 1913-14 in ...