Mapp And Lucia (Complete Collection) (ShandonPress)

By E. F. Benson & Shandonpress

Mapp And Lucia (Complete Collection) (ShandonPress) - E. F. Benson & Shandonpress
  • Release Date: 2016-10-06
  • Genre: Humor

Description

Mapp and Lucia is a collective name for a series of novels by E. F. Benson which features 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 (like Lucia) served as mayor. Lucia previously lived at Riseholme, based on Broadway, Worcestershire, from where she brought to Tilling her celebrated recipe for Lobster à la Riseholme.