The Social Queens of Tilling, E.F. Benson

E.F. Benson’s celebrated Mapp and Lucia novels chronicle English provincial life of the 1920s and 1930s with a mercilessly comic, sometimes malicious eye. They focus on two formidable women who dominate the social circles in their respective towns. The stout and deceptively cheerful Miss Elizabeth Mapp is the doyenne of the town of Tilling (for ... Read more » The post The Social Queens of…