Secret Lives (novel)

Secret Lives is a 1932 comedy novel by the British writer E. F. Benson, best known as the author of the Mapp and Lucia series.[1][2] The structure is broadly similar to that series, featuring two strong-willed women battling for social supremacy in the fictitious Durham Square in Edwardian London.

Secret Lives
First edition (US)
AuthorE.F. Benson
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreComedy
PublisherHodder and Stoughton (London)
Doubleday Doran
(New York)
Publication date
1932
Media typePrint

Margaret Mantrip is the queen bee of a garden square in London, reigning over the various inhabitants. When Susan Leg, a mysterious new resident arrives, it threatens to upset her carefully-ordered world. Little known to her is the fact that the newcomer is secretly the author of a series of trashy but bestselling novels under the pen name Rudolph Da Vinci.

References

  1. Reilly p.100-101
  2. Palmer & Lloyd p.195

Bibliography

  • Masters, Brian. The Life of E.F. Benson. Chatto & Windus, 1991.
  • Palmer, Geoffrey & Lloyd, Noel. E.F. Benson - As He Was. Lennard, 1988.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.


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