Book excerpt: 'Our Family Affairs, 1867-1896' is a memoir by E.F. Benson about his extraordinary family, including his father Edward White Benson, who once served as the Archbishop of Canterbury. The book also covers his brothers, Robert Hugh Benson, a prolific writer of fiction and a Catholic priest, and Arthur Christopher Benson, a respected essayist and poet, and his sister Margaret Benson, an Egyptologist. Through their individual stories, the book paints a vivid portrait of a remarkable family and their contributions to literature, religion, and scholarship during a pivotal era in history.