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-**Deborah Benson** (31 May 1924 - 26 February 2002), also known by her married name of Deborah Benson Covington. She traded under the name of Deborah Benson, Bookseller. (For a fairly detailed summary of her business and her career, see for instance {{wiki:deborah_benson_bookseller_1_2_.pdf|this}} {{wiki:deborah_benson_2_2_.pdf|profile}} of her in the Hartford //Courant// of 13 December 1984.) She [[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1991/12/29/716091.html?pageNumber=325|held herself out]] as a specialist in antiquarian medical books and in Alice in Wonderland. Birth date and death date taken from the Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2012.+**Deborah Benson** (31 May 1924 - 26 February 2002), also known by her married name of Deborah Benson Covington. She traded under the name of Deborah Benson, Bookseller. (For a fairly detailed summary of her business and her career, see for instance {{wiki:deborah_benson_bookseller_1_2_.pdf|this}} {{wiki:deborah_benson_2_2_.pdf|profile}} of her in the Hartford //Courant// of 13 December 1984.) She [[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1991/12/29/716091.html?pageNumber=325|held herself out]] in this 1991 profile of Connecticut booksellers in the New York //Times// as a specialist in antiquarian medical books and in //Alice in Wonderland//. Birth date and death date taken from the Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2012.
  
 Born Deborah Abramson. Per her profile in the //Courant// she changed her surname from Abramson to Benson when she turned 21 "as a gift to her father, who had always wanted a son." She was daughter of bookseller [[Ben Abramson]] of the [[Argus Book Shop]] of Chicago and New York (and briefly of Mohegan Lake); see [[https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/1581|the collection overview]] of the Argus Book Shop correspondence collection at Yale for a brief precis of the life and career of Ben Abramson.) She published a memoir of her father's career in 1977: D. B. Covington.// The Argus Book Shop: A Memoir.// West Cornwall, Conn.: Tarrydiddle Press, 1977. Born Deborah Abramson. Per her profile in the //Courant// she changed her surname from Abramson to Benson when she turned 21 "as a gift to her father, who had always wanted a son." She was daughter of bookseller [[Ben Abramson]] of the [[Argus Book Shop]] of Chicago and New York (and briefly of Mohegan Lake); see [[https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/1581|the collection overview]] of the Argus Book Shop correspondence collection at Yale for a brief precis of the life and career of Ben Abramson.) She published a memoir of her father's career in 1977: D. B. Covington.// The Argus Book Shop: A Memoir.// West Cornwall, Conn.: Tarrydiddle Press, 1977.
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