Queen Lucia

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Queen Lucia is a comic novel by E. F. Benson that satirically portrays the social rivalries and pretensions of upper-middle-class English village life.

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Queen Lucia canonical 8

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instanceOf novel
author E. F. Benson
characterAlias Lucia
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts social pretensions
social rivalries
upper-middle-class English village life
fictionalUniverse Mapp and Lucia universe
followedBy Miss Mapp
genre comic novel
satire
hasAdaptation Mapp and Lucia (television series)
hasCharacter Daisy Quantock
Emmeline Lucas
Georgie Pillson
Olga Bracely
Philip Lucas
hasInfluenceOn later English comic fiction
hasTheme aesthetic pretension
provincial society
snobbery
social climbing
social satire
literaryMovement Edwardian literature
mainCharacter Emmeline Lucas
mediaType print
narrativeForm prose
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor satirical portrayal of English village life
witty dialogue
originalLanguage English
positionInSeries first novel in the Mapp and Lucia series
publicationYear 1920
publisher Hodder & Stoughton
series Mapp and Lucia series
setting fictional English village of Riseholme
timePeriodOfSetting early 20th century

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E. F. Benson notableWork Queen Lucia
Mapp and Lucia series hasPart Queen Lucia
Edward Frederic Benson notableWork Queen Lucia
Lucia in London follows Queen Lucia
Emmeline Lucas characterIn Queen Lucia
Emmeline Lucas firstAppearance Queen Lucia
Tilling locatedInWork Queen Lucia
Lucia’s Progress follows Queen Lucia