"We will pay anything for Lucia books" - Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Nancy Mitford, and W.H. Auden.
"My greatest reading pleasure in 1967 was the discovery of E.F. Benson's "Lucia" novels...I enjoyed them so much that I borrowed them (and was tempted to steal) two more of the series: and I confess myself a Lucian addict." - Terence De Vere White.
Queen Lucia is set in the middle-class, garden-party world of the 1920's, a society dominated utterly and ruthlessly by the greatest arch-snob who has ever existed. Lucia and her cohorts--Georgie with his dyed hair, embroidery, and piano duets, Daisy Quantock with her passion for the new and exotic--capture the mood and flavour of a whole period, and the natures and rivalries of English life are described engrossingly and with rapier wit. If the pens of Evelyn Waugh and Jane Austen had mated, Lucia would have been the offspring.
"My greatest reading pleasure in 1967 was the discovery of E.F. Benson's "Lucia" novels...I enjoyed them so much that I borrowed them (and was tempted to steal) two more of the series: and I confess myself a Lucian addict." - Terence De Vere White.
Queen Lucia is set in the middle-class, garden-party world of the 1920's, a society dominated utterly and ruthlessly by the greatest arch-snob who has ever existed. Lucia and her cohorts--Georgie with his dyed hair, embroidery, and piano duets, Daisy Quantock with her passion for the new and exotic--capture the mood and flavour of a whole period, and the natures and rivalries of English life are described engrossingly and with rapier wit. If the pens of Evelyn Waugh and Jane Austen had mated, Lucia would have been the offspring.
