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Though the sun was hot on this July morning Mrs Lucas preferred to take in the half-mile that lay between the station and her house on her own brisk feet, and sent on her maid and her luggage in the glide that her spouse had ordered to meet her. After persons four hours in the train a fleeting walk would be pleasant, but, though she veiled it from her conscious mind, another motive, sub-consciously engineered, prompted her action. It would, of course, be universally known to all her friends in Riseholme that she was arriving today by the 12.26, and at that hour the village street would be sure to be full of them. They would see the glide with luggage draw up at the door of The Hurst, and nobody except her maid would get out.
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I was VERY disappointed in the quality of this item! It was listed as in very excellent condition and it was NOT! It was VERY fragile and in fact the take in fell off within a day or two even tho I was being extremely careful! Will be very careful about believing that a product is very excellent quality if used!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The plotting & manuvering to achieve one’s goals would do do justice to a mystery! Yet it is just everyday life in this village. Had not read this for many years and establish I loved it just as much this time around. Well worth reading.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
“Queen Lucia” is the comic period novel for persons who shy away from the genre. It’s perfect for anyone who’s cynically experimental Queen Bees at work in any era.
“Queen Lucia” operates as a tasty satire on two levels: Yes, the novel paints a particularly stinging picture of the social climbing of the British upper middle classes in the period between the World Wars. Our protagonist, E.F. Benson’s Emmeline Lucas — referred to as Queen Lucia behind her back — considers herself “high-priestess at every altar of Art” and the tiny village of Riseholme’s premiere social arbiter, imposing her iron will on all her neighbors. That Mrs. Lucas, whose Italian is virtually non-existent, insists that all of her friends and acquaintances refer to her as “Lucia,” with the Italian pronunciation, gives the reader an early indication of just how pretentious Emmeline Lucas is.
That Lucia sees herself as the pinnacle of refinement and exalted sensibility and her hamlet as the pre-eminent bastion of high art in England is part of the tasty joke. Like Lucifer in “Paradise Lost,” the competitive Lucia would rather rule in a Cotswold backwater than serve in London, which she constantly disparages. Will Lucia be able to prevail when a nationally reknowned opera singer moves into Riseholme? If she doesn’t, it won’t be for lack of trying, by honest means or foul!
While “Queen Lucia” ruthlessly ridicules the genteel social climbers of the 1920s, the novel also provides a scathing satire of Queen Bees of any period. Through the novel, you can see the beginnings of the current trend of suburbanites descending on idyllic rural parts and then transforming them into twee, Disneyfied versions of the original with no consideration for the locals. (Don’t miss the send-up of Lucia’s rarified version of an Elizabethan cottage.) And Lucia’s maneuvering to maintain her position as the arbiter of style and taste for Riseholme is hilarious. Scenes of the various residents of Riseholme kowtowing to persons above them on the social hierarchy while condescending to persons not more than could, with slight modifications, take place today in the Home Counties in England or the suburbs of Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois or California.
Every upple-middle-class suburb, whether in the UK or America, contains social climbers who will boast about “traveling in the best society” and will try to dominate their social circles and one-up everyone else. Any woman who has ever served on a committee or sent their child to a private school will admit modern-day Emmeline Lucases who have proved as competitive and infuriating as Lucia.
Yet, but infuriating, pompous, domineering, and pretentious Lucia might be, her antics will keep you riveted to the last page. Nor will you be able to wait for the next novel, “Lucia in London.”
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
another gently barbed look at a british village and its many eccentric, but memorable denizens, with their pretensions to sophistication. mostly vignette-like, but has some really memorable characters and situations. will def. be reading the next one.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I can’t tell you how many times I have read these books since I first learned them 10 years ago — and I painstakingly delight in them each and every time. The characters start to seem like people you know. There are times when I will be in a certain social situation, and I marvel “What would Lucia do?” She ALWAYS manages to come out yet to be no matter what setbacks she may encounter; she is shameless and ruthless and dauntless, and you can’t wait to see what she will do next! Just this morning, I was smiling to myself as I remembered an exchange between Georgie and Quaint Irene. I LOVE these books.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5