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Mr Teddy
E[dward] F[rederick] Benson
Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, archaeologist and short story writer. The reviewer in The Tatler on 20th June 1917 probably described the people in the story very well:
Mr Teddy
abounds in clever character studies of very real people. Mr. Benson's view may, perhaps, be limited to the circle of socially agreable people, but within that circle he sees with remarkable clarity. It is that which makes his stories so very readable. They are like pages torn out of tame lives, but rendered interesting by their cleverness and their extraordiary nearness to life. One literally sees everybody in them.
I'm sure that this review was reassuring for the readers of The Tatler. It was about them and their lives in Edwardian England when 28,000 young British men were killed, maimed or missing at the Battle of Messines.
First edition
Bibliography code: TFU-17.1
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin
Series: none
Year: 1917
Format: 8vo
Pages: 373
Binding: Brown cloth with title and author on front in black; same on spine with publisher at base.
Size: 194 x 130 mm
Dust jacket:
Internal illustrations:
Price: 6 shillings
Printing history: First edition
Printed by: not known
Notes: The accession date of the copy in the Bodleian Library is 19 June 1917.
Dust jacket (click to enlarge)