Queen Lucia
The first volume of E.F. Benson’s wildly satirical take on the Edwardian English upper class. The books were recently adapted by the BBC into a mini-series starring Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss.
Emmeline Lucas – Lucia, to her friends – is a determined social climber, determined to rise to the top of the town of Riseholme, a little one-street village inhabited by a strange group of the idle rich. The result is a mish-mash of petty schemes, gossip, and backstabbing the likes of which Riseholme has never seen.
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E. F. BENSON was born in 1867 at Wellington College in Berkshire, England, where his father (who later became Archbishop of Canterbury) was the headmaster. Benson studied archaeology at Kings College, Cambridge and at the British School of Archaeology in Athens, where he came to know Lord Alfred Douglas and Oscar Wilde. After visiting Henry James in the village of Rye, Benson eventually settled there until his death in 1940; Rye was the model for Tilling, the setting of his six popular Mapp and Lucia novels. Benson published more than one hundred books on various subjects, but remains best known for Mapp and Lucia.
Queen Lucia & Miss Mapp
E. F. Benson
Lucia in London & Mapp and Lucia
E. F. Benson
The Worshipful Lucia & Trouble for Lucia
E.F. Benson
The Mapp and Lucia Collection
E. F. Benson
Queen Lucia
E. F. Benson
Miss Mapp
E. F. Benson
Lucia in London
E. F. Benson
Mapp and Lucia
E. F. Benson
Lucia's Progress
E. F. Benson