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 ...

Still, Lucia deserves to have the last word about Elizabeth Mapp and her machinations: As she dryly tells Georgie at a moment of crisis, “I behaved towards our poor friend with a magnanimity ...

Miranda Richardson plays Elizabeth Mapp, Lucia's rival for social prestige in the fictional seaside town of Tilling (based on Rye in East Sussex), while Chancellor plays Lucia. "She's horrible isn ...

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 ...

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 ...

then you're in for a treat. In this delightful comedy of social oneupmanship, we met Miss Elizabeth Mapp, who was ecstatic to rent out her summer house to Miss Lucia, a lady she thought she could ...

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 ...

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 ...

She immediately comes into conflict with self-appointed social doyenne Elizabeth Mapp (Richardson). What follows is one of the most impeccably well-mannered bitch-offs in small screen history.

F. Benson. The three-part drama, which stars Miss Chancellor as Emmeline ‘Lucia’ Lucas and Miss Richardson as Elizabeth Mapp, has been written by Pemberton, who co-stars as Georgie Pillson.