Living Alone (Annotated)

Living Alone (1919) is Stella Benson's strange, incisive wartime fantasy, a novel in which the drab mechanisms of London life are unsettled by the arrival of a witch. Moving between social comedy, feminist satire, and lyrical fabulism, the book transforms ration queues, charitable committees, boarding-house solitude, and air-raid anxieties into occasions for enchantment and critique. Its style is ...