To Professor Roderick Beaton, an ever-caring supervisor and mentor
Edward Frederic (‘Fred’) Benson (1867-1940),
* the well-known English author, spent the greater part of the 1890s in Greece in various capacities. The aim of the present paper is to examine his relations with Greece: his activities during his stay, his literary output on Greece and its reception both in England and Greece, and the representation of Greece in the first three volumes of his autobiographical reminiscences
Our Family Affairs 1867-1896 (1920),
Mother (1925) and
As We Were. A Victorian Peep-Show (1930).