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Book review: The Benson Diary: I: 1885-1906; II: 1907-1925, edited by Eamon Duffy and Ronald Hyam

Book review: The Benson Diary: I: 1885-1906; II: 1907-1925, edited by Eamon Duffy and Ronald Hyam

Thursday, June 26, 2025
THE King James Bible weighs in at 783,137 words. The diary of Samuel Pepys, housed at Magdalene College, Cambridge, is just over one million words in length. The 180 bound notebooks that make up the diary of A. C. Benson (1862-1925), Eton beak and...