Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/554126to listen full audiobooks. Title: Queen Lucia Author: E. F. Benson Narrator: Martin Clifton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: November 2, 2021 Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore Publisher's Summary: 'Queen Lucia' (1920) is the first volume of E. F. Benson’s 'Mapp and Lucia' 6-novel series. It is a comedy of manners, set in provincial Riseholme (Lincolnshire). Emmeline Lucas rules local society with the help of her friend Georgie Pillson, a position she fiercely protects from her rival Daisy Quantock. But this very situation is at risk, as a scandal breaks out and a famous Prima Donna arrives in the sleepy old hamlet. - Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was a British archeologist and author, who wrote under the pen name E. F. Benson. Originally from Berkshire, he studied at Cambridge University and published his first novel 'Dodo' in 1893. It was an instant success. He was a prolific novelist, and wrote in a blend of satire, science-fiction, supernatural and romantic melodramas, and has been admired by later authors such as H. P. Lovecraft. He was also a reputed memoirist, and wrote amongst others a biography of Charlotte Brontë. Benson was a very discreet character but it is widely assumed that he was homosexual, of which traces can be found in the circles he kept as well as in his fiction. He never married and passed away in 1940 at age 72.

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