Dear Raining Acorns, thank you! I love the Mapp&Lucia novels (in the article I do real bibliographic research concerning the perception of Fred in Germany, but with tongue in cheek I question my fascination by Lucia - maybe there is a certain similarity in our characters? "With my gimlet eyes fixed on you I have to ask you: is it possible that you think of me -- oh my God, do you think I am - a snob? If that is the case I can only laugh my silvery laugh, open my Steinway and play the first movement of the "Moonlight Sonata" - and give a long sigh at the end, like the rest of you...
Congratulations. This time also WIkipedia helped me to know more about E F Benson, aka Fred as friends called him..Books of Mapp and Lucia series are the best known among his works..Where can we read the article E F Benson and I, written by U? Is it available online?
Dear Tomz, thank you! Yes, I'm allowed to call him Fred :-) Sorry to say the article isn't online, one can find it in the Silver Jubilee Edition No 25 2011 by The E.F.Benson Society Journal of 'the Dodo' ISSN09506241
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Congratulations, Britta! And to the E. F. Benson Society for showing such good taste in fine writing!
Dear Raining Acorns,
thank you! I love the Mapp&Lucia novels (in the article I do real bibliographic research concerning the perception of Fred in Germany, but with tongue in cheek I question my fascination by Lucia - maybe there is a certain similarity in our characters?
"With my gimlet eyes fixed on you I have to ask you: is it possible that you think of me -- oh my God, do you think I am - a snob?
If that is the case I can only laugh my silvery laugh, open my Steinway and play the first movement of the "Moonlight Sonata" - and give a long sigh at the end, like the rest of you...
Hi Britta,
Congratulations. This time also WIkipedia helped me to know more about E F Benson, aka Fred as friends called him..Books of Mapp and Lucia series are the best known among his works..Where can we read the article E F Benson and I, written by U? Is it available online?
Dear Tomz,
thank you! Yes, I'm allowed to call him Fred :-) Sorry to say the article isn't online, one can find it in the Silver Jubilee Edition No 25 2011 by The E.F.Benson Society Journal of 'the Dodo' ISSN09506241
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