For February, 2020, the University of Chicago free ebook is
A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain by Simon Goldhill.
The Victorians: conventional, patriarchal, family-focused, and strait-laced? Then there were the Bensons: Edward White Benson, archbishop of Canterbury; his wife, the lesbian writer Mary Sidgwick Benson, to whom he proposed marriage when she was only twelve; and their children, all of whom became prominent writers and none of whom married, including Fred Benson, gay and a competitive figure skater, who authored the Mapp and Lucia series of comic novels.
Drawing on the voluminous writings of the Bensons—collectively they wrote tens of thousands of letters and hundreds of books—Simon Goldhill created the compulsively readable A Very Queer Family Indeed: Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain, our free e-book for February. Via the Benson family, Goldhill shows us a world transitioning to modernity.
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