There, the resident prima donna is Miss Elizabeth Mapp, who presides over a ”little circle of friends” that includes a cleric who effects a phony Scottish accent and an outspoken, pipe-smoking ...

That goes double for the titular characters Miss Elizabeth Mapp (Miranda Richardson) who meets her match in newcomer Miss Emmeline ‘Lucia’ Lucas (Anna Chancellor). From the fabulous costumes ...

between newcomer Emmeline “Lucia” Lucas and resident queen bee Elizabeth Mapp. As Pemberton knows, his version has a lot to live up to – namely the sublime 1985 Channel 4 series starring ...

buck-toothed spinster Elizabeth Mapp. "Miranda and I were in scenes where there was a lot of hidden drama and squashed, huge macho emotions under big hairdos," Chancellor adds. Scriptwriter ...

Starring Miranda Richardson as Miss Elizabeth Mapp and Anna Chancellor as Miss Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas, the pair are constantly at war in the little seaside town of Tilling as they try to outdo ...

It's one hell of a run-up: EF Benson wrote four books about the separate lives of his English society queens, Miss Elizabeth Mapp and Mrs Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas, before bringing them together in ...

New arrival Lucia (Geraldine McEwan, as Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas) creates challenges to the established local social dominance of Miss Elizabeth Mapp (Prunella Scales).

It was also home, at different times, to two fictional characters: the title pair in Benson’s six Mapp and Lucia novels, written between 1920 and 1939. Miss Elizabeth Mapp, the original mistress ...

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buck-toothed spinster Elizabeth Mapp. "Miranda and I were in scenes where there was a lot of hidden drama and squashed, huge macho emotions under big hairdos," Chancellor adds. Scriptwriter ...