Reviewer: E. F. Benson's strikingly original comic creation Miss Mapp is an arch-schemer and social climber from the British town of Tilling who spends her days using opera glasses and a notebook to chart her neighbors' affairs. Among her interests are Major Benjamin Flint, whom she has been trying to marry for years, and the underhanded Miss Susan Poppit.

"Miss Mapp" from Edward Frederic Benson. English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer (1867-1940).

"Queen Lucia" from Edward Frederic Benson. English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer (1867-1940).

Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. He started his novel writing career with the (then) fashionably controversial Dodo (1893), which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama.

"David Blaize and the Blue Door" from Edward Frederic Benson. Edward Frederic Benson(1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.

"Across the Stream" from Edward Frederic Benson. English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer (1867 - 1940).