The E F Benson Collection
Edward Frederic Benson was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury 
and member of a distinguished and eccentric family. After attending Marlborough and King's College, 
Cambridge where he studied classics and archaeology. He worked at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. 
One of our greatest humorists, he achieved great success at an early age with his first novel, Dodo (1893). He was a 
prolific author writing over a hundred books: serious novels, ghost stories, plays and biographies. 
But he is best remembered for his Lucia comedies written between 1920 and 1939 
and other comic novels such as Paying Guests and Mrs Ames. 
He became mayor of Rye, the Sussex town that provided the model for his fictional Tilling, from 1934 to 1937. 


 
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01 Queen  Lucia 1.4 (1983)
01 Queen  Lucia 2.4 (1983)
01 Queen  Lucia 3.4 (1983)
01 Queen  Lucia 4.4 (1983)
01 Queen Lucia 1.5  by E.F.Benson - The Guru
01 Queen Lucia 2.5 - Lucia's Garden Party
01 Queen Lucia 3.5 - Burglary
01 Queen Lucia 4.5 - Un Po di Musica  
01 Queen Lucia 5.5 - Spirits 




02 Miss Mapp 01.10  by E F Benson - Redcurrant Fool  
02 Miss Mapp 02.10 - God Bless the Prince of Wales
02 Miss Mapp 03.10 -  The Wars of the Roses and the Poppies
02 Miss Mapp 04.10 - The Duel
02 Miss Mapp 05.10 - Kingfisher Blue  
02 Miss Mapp 06.10 - The Cowards
02 Miss Mapp 07.10 - Humble Pie 
02 Miss Mapp 08.10 - Crimson Lake  
02 Miss Mapp 09.10 - Faradiddleony 
02 Miss Mapp 10.10 - Alas, Poor Puffin
******Arch-schemer and social climber, Miss Mapp spends her days using opera glasses 
and a notebook to chart her neighbors' affairs. Among her interests are Major Benjamin Flint, 
                             whom she has been trying to marry for years.



04 Mapp and Lucia 01.10 by E F Benson 
04 Mapp and Lucia 02.10
04 Mapp and Lucia 03.10
04 Mapp and Lucia 04.10
04 Mapp and Lucia 05.10
04 Mapp and Lucia 06.10
04 Mapp and Lucia 07.10
04 Mapp and Lucia 08.10
04 Mapp and Lucia 09.10
04 Mapp and Lucia 10.10
******This hilarious study of 1930s manners and pecking order begins when Lucia Lucas 
rents a summer place - the home of Miss Elizabeth Mapp - in the English village of Tilling. 
Between Miss Mapp's penchant for spying on neighbors and Lucia's fussy sidekick, 
                                 Georgie, the stage is set for a battle of wits.



05 Lucia's Progress 1.5  by E F Benson
05 Lucia's Progress 2.5
05 Lucia's Progress 3.5
05 Lucia's Progress 4.5
05 Lucia's Progress 5.5
******Lucia and Mapp's amusing adventures in Tilling continue in Lucia's Progress. 
The redoubtable pair stand unsuccessfully for election to the Town Council. Lucia 
enters a too-chaste marriage with Georgie. And after a house swap with the infamous 
Miss Mapp, Lucia redecorates, only to discover - and then hide - the remains of a Roman villa! 
                           "These stories are addictive!" - Boston Globe



06 The Blotting Book  (murder in Brighton) 1 of 2 
06 The Blotting Book  (murder in Brighton) 2 of 2 
******And in a copse close by to where the body of the murdered man was found 
had been discovered a thick bludgeon of a stick, broken it would seem by some 
violent act, into two halves. On the top half was rudely cut with a pen-knife M. ASSHE . . . 
             What was puzzling, however, was the apparent motive of robbery about the crime.



07 Complimentary Souls by E Benson 




08 Caterpillars by E F Benson




09 Secret Lives 1.3  by E F Benson 
09 Secret Lives 2.3 
09 Secret Lives 3.3 
******Riddled with curiosity, mordant pen in hand, E F Benson draws aside the plush velvet drapes 
in Durham Square - and reveals in this deliciously ironic novel all the hilarious intrigues and 
intimacies of life upstairs and downstairs in one of the stateliest squares in England.



10 The Thing in the Hall  


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