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Make Way For Lucia - Complete Mapp and Lucia Collection by E. F. Benson : 6 Novels & 2 Short Stories, Paperback / softback Book

Make Way For Lucia - Complete Mapp and Lucia Collection by E. F. Benson : 6 Novels & 2 Short Stories Paperback / softback

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Make Way For Lucia, also known as Mapp and Lucia, is a collective name for a series of novels by E.

F. Benson about Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp.

The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s, vying for social prestige and one-upmanship in an atmosphere of extreme cultural snobbery.

Several of them are set in the small seaside town of Tilling, closely based on Rye, East Sussex, where Benson lived for a number of years and served as mayor.

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F.

Benson. He started his novel writing career in 1893 with the fashionably controversial Dodo, which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama.

He repeated the success of Dodo, with sequels to this novel, but the greatest success came relatively late in his career with The Mapp and Lucia series consisting of six novels and two short stories.

Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories.

Table of contents: Queen Lucia Miss Mapp Lucia in London Mapp and Lucia Lucia's Progress or The Worshipful Lucia Trouble for Lucia The Male Impersonator Desirable Residences

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