Queen Lucia

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Getting An Insight Into The World Of The Idle Rich With Queen Lucia By E. F. Benson

Although much have been said and written about the rich people who find it hard to do anything else than be idle, no one has depicted a finer portrait of the class than Edward Frederic Benson in Queen Lucia. Here we are drawn into a small world of people who have nothing better to do than to spy on each other and catch the smallest gossip while also watching “queen” Lucia trying to hold her status among her subjects.

The main character is Mrs. Lucas, or Lucia, as she is also known among her intimate friends. We see her just returning from London to the small but picturesque Elizabethan village of Worcestershire. She is keen on following the arts just for the sake of the arts and she will stop at nothing from ensuring that her position as a matron and leader is enforced and maintained. Her second-in-command Georgie Pillson both worships her and contributes to the numerous plots set by her subjects to overthrow her.

The novel contains wonderful satire addressed at the idle rich who fight boredom and the carefree life by spying in shops or contemplating the difficulties of their position. Set in the 1920s, the action or better called inaction can only get smiles from the readers who follow this small world free of poverty and discontent but filled with snobbery.

E. F. Benson manages to wonderfully tell the story of the rich between the two great wars and it tries to catch the atmosphere of that time when worries were only concerning small and insignificant things. Readers will surely get a few laughs while watching Queen Lucia and her struggles to keep her position while being surrounded by the unfaithful servants who will stop at nothing to get her off her throne.
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