The six Mapp and Lucia novels by Edward Frederic Benson, one of the most popular short-story writers and novelists of the Edwardian period, continue to enjoy a worldwide cult following more than seventy years after the publication of Queen Lucia (1920)....
In the last two decades of the twentieth century, it seems certain that more people on both sides of the Atlantic have seen E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson's best-known characters, Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas and Elizabeth Mapp, than have read about them. In 1...
The way we do Christmas is enough to make you convert. By "We," I guess I mean Americans, or at least the folks I know, whose mailboxes groan this year under the weight of mail-order catalogs. I'm sure that others (those without...
Fly life It is ultimately futile, which is why flyfishing is like life. At first sight, to stand waist-deep in cold water, thrashing the pool as the rain thrashes you, and where only the mozzies are biting, is not an obviously attractive way...
