Early Life
Delta was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to Virginia (née Choremi) and the wealthy cotton merchant Emmanuel Benakis. She was the third of six children, her two older siblings, being Alexandra and Antonis Benakis (whose Tom Sawyer-like mischiefs she immortalized in her book Trellantonis); her younger siblings were Constantine, who died at the age of two, Alexander, and Argine.
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“... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)