Miss Mapp

E. F. Benson's deliciously wicked comedy of small-town social warfare, introducing the scheming, snooping Miss Mapp and the genteel battlefield of an English seaside town.

At a glance Beneath the polite surface of a small English town, war is being waged, over teas… Benson chronicles it with wicked, delighted precision. What it's about The novel introduces Miss Elizabeth Mapp, a formidable spinster who… Through a season of intrigues, slights, alliances, and rivalries, Benson follows the…

The novel introduces Miss Elizabeth Mapp, a formidable spinster who reigns over the social life of the little seaside town of Tilling from her strategically placed window, from which she surveys the comings and goings…