The King’s Achievement (1905)

This novel portrays the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII early in the Sixteenth Century from the point of view of an ordinary English middle class family.

Chronologically, this novel takes place before the events in By What Authority?, although The King's Achievement was written later.  While a stand-alone work, this novel fills in the histories of many of the characters appearing in the earlier novel.

Benson’s own achievement was thus the invention of the “family saga” quite a few decades before this genre became popular with the general public.

416 pages

ISBN # 9780972982124

$22.00 (U.S.)

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