Robert Hugh Benson
R. H. Benson, son of Archbishop Benson and brother of E. F. and A. C. Benson, was a prolific Catholic novelist whose fiction dramatised religious conversion and historical persecution. His dystopian Lord of the World remains striking.
Works
- Lord of the WorldDystopian novel depicting a future world dominated by secular materialism
- Come Rack! Come Rope!Historical novel set during the Tudor persecution of English Catholics
- The King's AchievementHistorical novel exploring religious conflict during the English Reformation
- The Queen's Tragedy
- Richard Raynal Solitary