Stella Benson (6 January 1892 – 7 December 1933) was an English feminist, novelist, poet, and travel writer.

During World War I, she supported the troops by gardening and by helping poor women in London's East End at the Charity Organisation Society.

In Berkeley and San Francisco from December 1918 through December 1919, she participated in a bohemian community that included Albert Bender, Anne Bremer, Witter Bynner, Sara Bard Field, Charles Erskine Scott Wood, and Marie de Laveaga Welch.

Her most famous work, the novel The Far-Away Bride, was published in the United States first in 1930 and as Tobit Transplanted in Britain in 1931.

[5] Benson's last unfinished novel Mundos and her personal selection of her best poetry Poems were published posthumously in 1935.

According to George Malcolm Johnson, "Stella Benson had a unique ability to blend fantasy and reality, especially evident in her earlier novels and in her short stories.

Her impish humour and wicked wit, frequently directed towards a satirical end, masked an underlying compassion.

Benson's novels (especially her later more realistic ones) and stories often treat serious social issues and reflect her travails as a twentieth-century woman: supporting female suffrage, witnessing the tragedy of the First World War, and living in a hostile, volatile colonial setting.

Despite her very modern, ironic treatment of the theme of individuals lost, isolated, and alienated in strange and frightening situations, she has not garnered much contemporary critical attention, and deserves reappraisal.