Autograph manuscript, ca. 1913.

Record ID: 
192943
Accession number: 
MA 4385
Author: 
Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic), 1867-1940.
Credit: 
Gift of Axel G. Rosin, 1986.
Description: 
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.6 x 16 cm
Notes: 

Dodo the Second was published in 1913 in the United States under the title Dodo's Daughter, and the British edition was published the following year.

Summary: 

An untitled essay describing the circumstances under which he wrote a sequel to his novel Dodo: "I contemplated writing a further chronicle of Dodo very soon after the original book came out twenty years ago [in the 1890's], in which, as I have now carried out, Dodo can not get rid of her husband, whom she had married, as she says herself, out of fear, and remains her life in England...".

Provenance: 
Purchased as the gift of Axel G. Rosin on the Fellows Fund, 1986.