Stella Benson 
Collected Short Stories 

Stella Benson (1892-1933) was a British author. Of delicate health she was educated at home. At the age of 20, she undertook a journey to the West Indies, which furnished the material for her first novel,  I Pose, in 1915. When she returned she took up social work.

She published a second novel before ill health led her to seek a warmer climate, and she ended up in California. She worked as maid, bill collector, and book agent before finding more solid work as a tutor at the University of California and as a reader for the University Press.

She married in 1921 and continued her travels, much of which was in the far east. Her most important work, Tobit Transplanted (1931, ) won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize and the A. C. Benson Silver Medal of the Royal Society of Literature. She died of pneumonia in China just before her 45th birthday.