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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. (See for instance this profile of her in the Hartford //Courant// of 13 December 1984.) 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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