Mapp and Lucia

Mapp and Lucia is a collective name for a series of novels by E. F. Benson, and is also the name of a television series based on those novels.

The novels

The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s. Several of them are set in the small seaside of Tilling, based on Rye, East Sussex, where Benson lived for a number of years and (like Lucia) served as mayor.

Related Topics:
1920s - 1930s - Rye, East Sussex

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The novels, in chronological order, are:

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• Queen Lucia (1920)
• Miss Mapp (1922)
• Lucia in London (1927)
• Mapp and Lucia (1931)
• Lucia's Progress (1935) (published in the U.S. as The Worshipful Lucia)
• Trouble for Lucia (1939)

In 1977 Thomas Y. Cromwell Company reprinted all six novels in a compendium called Make Way for Lucia. The order of Miss Mapp and Lucia in London was switched in the compendium, and a Miss Mapp short story called "The Male Impersonator" was included between Miss Mapp and Mapp and Lucia.

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