![]() ![]() In later years when Fred was Mayor of Rye he chose Jacomb Hood's widow - who lived in the town - as his mayoress. In Jacomb Hood's memoir 'With Brush and Pencil, published 1925, the artist describes a trip to Greece with Fred to research the locations. Signed by Benson to the endpaper to G P Jacomb Hood, the artist who had illustrated Benson's previous historical novels set in the Greece War of Independence, The Vintage. Internally, very good, few spots of pale foxing here and there. Brown cloth, few insignificant marks, but good order. Signed to an artist friend The Life of Alcibiades, E. A few years later he would write what is probably his best biography, that of Charlotte Bronte. ![]() Feeling that if he was to make his mark he needed a new direction, he chose biography and in quick succession wrote books on Francis Drake, Magellan and this one on Alcibiades. ![]() Item: 155342063745 E F Benson 'The Life of Alcibiades" presentation copy Classical Greece. ![]()
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