--- title: Miss Mapp Metadescription: Chapter by chapter summaries of what happens in all twelve, each one linking straight to the full text. author: E.F. Benson chapters: 12 canonical: https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp --- Token estimate: ~1,200 # Miss Mapp E.F. Benson - [Chapter One](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-01) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-01.md)) - Miss Mapp spies on Tilling from her garden-room window, then Isabel Poppit telephones a last-minute bridge invitation she teases about accepting. - [Chapter Two](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-02) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-02.md)) - Miss Mapp curtsies in the road to a young man she mistakes for the Prince of Wales, after Mrs Poppit flaunts the MBE the King gave her. - [Chapter Three](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-03) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-03.md)) - Diva cuts pink roses from her chintz curtains for a new dress, and Miss Mapp steals the idea and covers her own frock with poppies. - [Chapter Four](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-04) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-04.md)) - Diva dresses her maid Janet in the same chintz roses Miss Mapp copied, and Mrs Poppit exposes Elizabeth's hoarded food cupboard at the bridge party. - [Chapter Five](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-05) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-05.md)) - Major Benjy and Captain Puffin quarrel drunkenly over whisky, Benjy sends a duel challenge, and both flee to the station only to laugh it off. - [Chapter Six](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-06) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-06.md)) - Tilling waits for news of the duel, but Major Benjy and Captain Puffin return from golf unharmed; Diva buys a crab to get the Padre talking. - [Chapter Seven](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-07) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-07.md)) - Miss Mapp has Susan deny the rumour that the duel was over her, which only makes Tilling believe it, then Diva arrives in an identical gown. - [Chapter Eight](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-08) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-08.md)) - Miss Mapp spies on Major Benjy, catches him drinking with Captain Puffin in the mist, then brands both men cowards who fled the duel. - [Chapter Nine](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-09) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-09.md)) - Major Benjy apologises to Miss Mapp for the duel, she forgives him only if he drops Puffin, then parades him round the shops. - [Chapter Ten](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-10) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-10.md)) - Miss Mapp arrives at Susan Poppit's bridge party in crimson-lake to find Diva in the same gown, then sees Susan and Mr Wyse kiss in the garden. - [Chapter Eleven](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-11) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-11.md)) - Mr. Wyse telephones that Diva's invitation was lost in Figgis's coat, and at his party the Contessa fawns over Miss Mapp while flirting with Major Benjy. - [Chapter Twelve](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-12) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/miss-mapp/chapter-12.md)) - Captain Puffin dies drowned in his Christmas soup after a stroke, and Miss Mapp consoles the lonely Major Benjy with piquet and golf lessons. --- ## Forthcoming **The Rise of Lucia** by Dan Edwards The nineteen-year-old Emmeline Smith, before she became the formidable Lucia. A prequel to E.F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia series. [Read an extract](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/mapp-and-lucia-prequel/chapter-01) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/mapp-and-lucia-prequel/chapter-01.md)) ## Articles - [Writing advice from Jane Austen's teacher](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/articles/writing-advice-from-jane-austens-teacher) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/articles/writing-advice-from-jane-austens-teacher.md)) - Hugh Blair wrote the composition textbook Jane Austen's generation learned from. His rules for clear, unaffected prose read like a modern style guide. - [The sex scenes from Fanny Hill](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/articles/fanny-hill-sex-scenes) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/articles/fanny-hill-sex-scenes.md)) - The eleven substantial sex scenes from Fanny Hill (1748), verbatim and in order. Explicit throughout, but Cleland never uses a coarse word. 14,000 words.