MAPP AND LUCIA (Annotated)

Mapp and Lucia is E. F. Benson's brilliant comic fusion of two of his most formidable social strategists: Miss Elizabeth Mapp of Tilling and Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas of Riseholme. Set amid the rituals, rivalries, and minute hierarchies of English provincial life, the novel turns tea parties, garden fêtes, bridge evenings, and municipal ambitions into arenas of near-epic contest. Benson's prose is ur...