Book review: A Very Queer Family Indeed by Simon Goldhill
The author, Simon Goldhill, Cambridge University professor of Greek, gives an unabashed warning early on not to expect a biography, which he describes as āa ludicrous genreā because of its inevitable distortions.
Unfortunately, one seldom gets near the actual family who were almost all entirely or basically gay. The head of the clan was Edward White Benson, archbishop of Canterbury from 1883 until his death in 1896. His wife Mary was a lesbian, but they managed to produce six children, two of whom died young.
