"Mapp & Lucia" first published in 1935. "Lucia's progress" first published 1935. "Trouble for Lucia" first published in 1939.
This novel, originally published in 1935, is being republished here together with a new introductory biography of the author.
Lucia is the most popular and well read character written by E. F. Benson, there are six books in total, this volume contains the fifth and sixth instalments of this wonderfully satirical look at the petty squabbling and brinkmanship in the ...
Lucia Lucas, the eternally effervescent dowager, continues to consternate and beguile friends and antagonists alike in the English countryside where she becomes embroiled in high finance, buried treasure, politics, and...
Lucia and Mapp's adventures in Tilling continue in LUCIA'S PROGRESS, previously published in the U.S. as THE WORSHIPFUL LUCIA. In this volume both Lucia and Mapp stand for election to...
Then as Poppy still lingered she said to Georgie: ¡Run up to Poppy}s room, dear, and tell her she must be quick.¢ She had hardly got that pleasant sentence out when Poppy entered. ¡Naughty!¢ said Lucia, and took her arm to introduce the ...
... Lucia. [All subsequent quotations are from two omnibus editions, published by Penguin. Lucia Rising contains the first three, while Lucia Victrix contains the last three novels. Direct quotes are from individual novels as indicated.] It ...
It is arguable that Brenner's view, referred to above, that the poem of the Capable Woman is subversive of male ... it into their situation by replacing the honey-lipped woman by the sweet-talking man on the prowl for a one-night stand.
In a collection of essays the ways in which people experience contemporary material culture in the western world are examined.
About the book The Lucia Rider consists of three novellas, each self-contained. The novellas were inspired by a city or by a countryside or by a folklore, where the author was living or visiting.
Lucia, Lucia