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''Mapp and Lucia'' is a collective name for a series of novels by E. F. Benson , and is also the name of a television series based on those novels. THE NOVELS The novels feature humorous incidents in the lives of (mainly) upper-middle-class British people in the 1920s and 1930s . Several of them are set in the small seaside town of Tilling , closely based on Rye, East Sussex , where Benson lived for a number of years and (like Lucia) served as mayor. The novels, in chronological order, are:
In 1977 Thomas Y. Cromwell Company reprinted all six novels in a compendium called ''Make Way for Lucia''. The order of ''Miss Mapp'' and ''Lucia in London'' was switched in the compendium, and a Miss Mapp short story called "The Male Impersonator" was included between ''Miss Mapp'' and ''Mapp and Lucia''. There were also two sequels, written by Tom Holt and published by Macmillan and Black Swan:
THE TV SERIES The TV series, produced by London Weekend Television , was filmed in Rye in the 1980s , and starred Prunella Scales as Mapp, Geraldine McEwan as Lucia, and Nigel Hawthorne as Georgie. There were ten episodes. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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