Dust jacket notes: "England between the wars was a paradise of utter calm and leisure for the very rich. But into this enclave is born Mrs. Emmeline Lucas - la Lucia to her friends - a woman determined to set her own rules and make everyone else live by them. Brahmin, busybody, tastemaker, vamp, despot - Lucia is all these things and more; but above all, she is a vital, vibrant woman whose wheelings, dealings and misadventures have enchanted three generations of readers. Written in the 1920s, these six novels and one short story, which were compiled in one volume in 1977 and have been reset for this edition, form an exquisite tapestry of life in two delightful English towns. As the grands dames of the British upper class battle it out for the throne of high society, their triumphs, defeats, attacks, surprise counterattacks and hasty retreats provide a fascinating picture of their class and their era - and a delicious entertainment for all."

Make Way For Lucia: The Complete Lucia, Including Queen Lucia / Lucia in London / Miss Mapp / The Male Impersonator / Mapp and Lucia / The Worshipful Lucia / Trouble for Lucia

E.F. BENSON

Harper&Row

Lucia in London Part II

HarperCollins, Publishers

The middle novel of Benson's six-book "Lucia" series sets Lucia in an English summer resort town.

Mapp and Lucia

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 love

The Worshipful Lucia Part V

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

The Worshipful Lucia (Make Way for Lucia, Part V)

Harpercollins

This title contains three of Benson's Lucia stories. "Queen Lucia" was published in 1920, "Miss Mapp" in 1922 and "Lucia in London" in 1927. They are much-loved novels of provincial snobbery and became a successful television series.

Lucia Rising : Queen Lucia', 'Miss Mapp' and 'Lucia in London

Humor & Satire

Penguin Books, Ltd.

As We Were: A Victorian Peepshow (Penguin Classic Biography)

Biographies & Memoirs

Heinemann

Miss Mapp: Including, The Male Impersonator

Queen Lucia is the first book in the Mapp and Lucia series.\nMrs. Lucas, Lucia to her intimates, resides in the village of Riseholme, a pretty Elizabethan village in Worcestershire, where she vigorously guards her status as "Queen" despite occasional attempts from her subjects to overthrow her. Lucia’s dear friend Georgie Pillson both worships Lucia and occasionally works to subvert her power.\nThe Mapp and Lucia novels, in chronological order,\nQueen Lucia (1920) 
Miss Mapp (1922) 
Lucia in London (1927) 
Mapp and Lucia (1931) 
Lucia's Progress (1935) (published in the U.S. as Trouble for Lucia (1939)\nThere are also five other books based on the same characters written by other authors.\nTom Holt wrote two sequels, published by Macmillan and Black Swan, which are written in a style and esprit of the originals. They\nLucia in Wartime (1985) 
Lucia Triumphant (1986)\nGuy Fraser-Sampson has written three additional novels the first published by Troubador, the second and third by Elliott and Thompson\nMajor Benjy (2008)\nIn the chronology of the novels set in Tilling this sits between Miss Mapp and Mapp and Lucia. The writing is in a more contemporary style than Benson and Holt's while retaining the typical plot devices of the earlier books. The book contains a number of minor character errors. There is however a delicious cake baking episode which is entirely in the spirit of the original novels.\nLucia on Holiday (2012) 
Au A new Mapp and Lucia novel (2014)

Queen Lucia

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