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| Author | E. F. Benson |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Comic novel |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
Publication date | 1931 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Preceded by | Lucia in London |
| Followed by | Lucia's Progress |
Mapp and Lucia is a 1931 comic novel written by E. F. Benson. It is the fourth of six novels in the popular Mapp and Lucia series, about idle women in the 1920s and their struggle for social dominance over their small communities. It brings together two sets of characters from three previous Benson novels: Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas, Georgie Pillson and Daisy Quantock from Queen Lucia (1920) and Lucia in London (1927), and Miss Elizabeth Mapp and her neighbours from Miss Mapp (1922).
In this novel, Lucia and Georgie leave Riseholme to take up summer residence in Tilling, renting Miss Mapp's home of Mallards. Mapp and Lucia soon begin a war for the dominance of social life in Tilling.[1]
- ^ Palmer, Geoffrey; Lloyd, Noel (1988). E.F. Benson, As He Was. Lennard Publishing. p. 151. ISBN 978-1852910600. Retrieved 3 November 2020.