Some Images of Stella Benson

Stella Benson (1892-1933), feminist, novelist, poet, travel writer and China sojourner who went to China with her husband James (Shaemas) O’Gorman Anderson who worked with the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs. They lived in Nanning, Beihai and Hong Kong. She talks about her China experiences in her books Worlds Within Worlds, and her most famous novel The Far-Away Bride. She was obviously connected back in England despite living in rather remote places for much of her married life – as witnessed by her portrait by Wyndham Lewis below. She died in Tonkin.