[1] Country Life wrote that it "marked her out as a writer whose humour and freshness were as delightful as her outlook was sane and modern".
[1] She also wrote short fiction (including thrillers and tales of the macabre), travel books,[7] and an edited collection.
[9] The Spectator wrote:Miss Theodora Benson presents us with her best short stories, wherein she skips amusingly enough over the face of the globe east and west, and at her ease everywhere.
One friend explained that her "compassions and insight, in her later years, seemed to intensify to a burning point and caused her to be endlessly occupied and concerned with other people".
[1][8] The Times published an obituary for Benson, which was followed by additional contributions from Elizabeth Jenkins and Betty Askwith.
[8]In 1971, in the preface to The Case of Kitty Ogilvie, Jean Stubbs acknowledged Benson as having conducted "the meticulous researches" on which the novel was based.