Roused to Tranquility ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Roused to Tranquility ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Robert Hugh Benson’s “The King’s Achievement” does what good historical fiction should do: it renders a complex historical situation justly and it brings characters to life in a story that is interesting for its own sake. On October 31, 1904, Robert Hugh Benson wrote his mother that he had just finished his novel on Henry VIII. He was in a jubilant mood. He was thirty-four years old, at the height of his powers. He had found himself, his vocatio…