The Complete Mapp & Lucia

E. F. BENSON VOLUME ONE

Queen Lucia Miss Mapp Lucia in London

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia is one of the great comie characters in English literature. ‘As by right divine’ she rules over the toy kingdom of ‘Riseholme’. Her meek husband Pepino is ‘her prince-consort’, the wonderfully camp Georgie is her ‘gentleman-in-waiting’ and the village green is her ‘parliament’. In Lucia in London, her bare-faced swank never ceases to amaze and amuse, and her earnest determination to learn all about ‘modern movements’ makes her the perfect comic vehicle for Benson’s vibrant satire of salon society, and of the dominant f