1933-12-09 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1933.

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STELLA BENSON.

WELL-KNOWN NOVELIST DIES IN CHINA

London, Dec. 8.

British literature has suffered a sovore loss in the death in China from pneumonia of Stella Benson, brilliant woman writer, aged 42.- British Wireless.

Stella Benson (Mra. J. G. O'Gorman Anderson) was very well-known in Hongkong, and a large circle of friends will griova to hear of her sudden passing. She had personality and was of an Independent, adventurous spirit. which reflected itself in the quiet cynicism of her writings:

Stella Benson was born in Eng- land In January, 1892. Hor mother was a sister of Mary Chol- mondsley, author of a once cele- brated novel "Red Pottage.' Stella's spirit of adventure assert- ed itself early in life, and with a cheerful disregard of hardship she spent much of her girlhood in wandering through Germany. France and Switzerland. She was an ardent zupporter of the women's auffrage movement, however, and, returning to England in 1914, played a prominent part in the campaign of the "militants." She kept a shop at Hoxton for a time.

During the War, she worked for 18 months in the East End of London and also in the Land Army. Meanwhile she had writ ten three books, "I Poso," "This is the End," and "Twenty." Gd- Ing to America in 1918, she arriv ed at San Francisco with $5 in. her purse and knowing nobody there. Before she left, she had earned money Да a university coach, a Indy's maid, a collector of overdue bills, a book salesman and a "render" on a newspaper. She worked on a ranch in Colora- do, 6,000 feet up in the Rockles, and in a San Francisco boarding house,

In the Far East,

Still far from comfortably off, sha resumed her wanderings by crossing the Pacific in the small- est Japanese passenger ship on that ocean. The vessel was violently tossed about that before it reached Honolulu, she had .a broken shoulder and many minor wounds,

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After

sho recovery

roached China, lived in Manchurin for a time and acquired the material for "Tobit Transplanted."

Coming to Hongkong, about 1920, Miss Benson obtained em- ployment teaching in the Diocesan Boys School, where she lind charge of a class of 50 boys. It was at this time that she wrote the book which brought her first serious notice, "Living Alone." In 1921 she married Mr. J: G. O'Gorman Anderson, of the Chinese Customs service, and went with him to his different posts in China. Her next book of local interest was "The Little World."

Mrs. Anderson travelled in many parts of China, and at one time worked as X-ray nsalatant in & Peking hospital during one of the civil wars. She visited India, kvas sald to have been tiger shooting, and wrote bright articles for the nowspapers. She had also been to the West Indies, where her experi- ences included an earthquake. She was said to have been the first Englishwoman to penetrate Into the Indo-Chinese province of Loos. She capitalised her frail health to the great profit of her experience for she spent a good part of her fa "travelling rough" to ward off illncea.

Toblt and the Count.

All Stella Benson's writings are distinguished by originality, alert observation, poetic imagination of fun. and a fascinating sense Among her other books are "The Poor Man" (her experiences as a teacher), "Pipers and a Dancer," "Sketches of Travel," "Worlds Within Worlds," "Good-bye Strang- er." "Hope Against Hope," also a book of poems, another of travel sketches and" innumerable news- paper articles, some of which ap- peared in the S. C. M. Poat as far back as 1920, Recently she contributed some amusing satires of Hongkong life to home papers, including the Radio Times, which created much local discussion.

Stella Benson's outstanding suc- CeRBES, however, wore "Living Alone, "Tobit Transplanted" (story of Russian emigres in Man- churia) and "Pull Dovil, Pull Bak- or,"

the story of the Count de Toulouse Lautreo de Savine, some- time King of Bulgaria and long- tims inmate of charitable hospitals.

Stella Benson was fond of the Chinese people, and did much work for charity. Shoked pottering about old temples and was fre quently soon at Stanley. She was

fond also of animals, cap we

dogs, and was an able and como propagandist during her last sojourn hore, for the 8.P.C.A. She spent two years in Hongkong And left only a few months ago. Her husband, Mr. J.-G. O'Gorman Andornon, is at present Customs Commissioner at Pakhol, and it is bolloved that Mrs. Anderson died there.

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1924 JANUARY 1934

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