Fashionably controversial bestseller at the time of appearance (1893), portraying London "society" in the Fin de Siècle. Dodo is a young woman who enjoys belonging to the high society. At the start of the book, she is about to make an advantageous marriage, to a man with money and a title - just what she needs. Edward Frederic Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson.