--- title: Queen Lucia Metadescription: Chapter by chapter summaries of what happens in all sixteen, each one linking straight to the full text. author: E.F. Benson chapters: 16 canonical: https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia --- Token estimate: ~1,500 # Queen Lucia E.F. Benson - [Chapter One](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-01) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-01.md)) - Lucia walks from the station to The Hurst, dismisses London to her husband Peppino, then sees Daisy Quantock walking with a turbaned Indian guru. - [Chapter Two](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-02) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-02.md)) - Lucia learns from Daisy Quantock's letter that Daisy has installed a penniless Indian Guru to teach her Yoga, and invites him to her garden party. - [Chapter Three](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-03) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-03.md)) - Georgie brings Lucia's note to Daisy Quantock, meets her Guru from Benares and asks to be his pupil, while Daisy plots to keep him and unseat Lucia. - [Chapter Four](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-04) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-04.md)) - Lady Ambermere tells Georgie that opera singer Olga Bracely is coming to Riseholme, then Lucia intercepts Daisy Quantock's Guru and takes him to lunch. - [Chapter Five](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-05) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-05.md)) - Lucia annexes Daisy Quantock's Guru over tiffin, installs him in her house and arranges yoga classes, while Georgie is left with the dog Tipsipoozie. - [Chapter Six](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-06) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-06.md)) - Georgie mistakes his sisters Hermy and Ursy for burglars and confronts them with a poker, then races Lucia to call on the singer Olga Bracely. - [Chapter Seven](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-07) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-07.md)) - Olga Bracely skips Lucia's garden party to lunch with Georgie, then arrives late and sings Siegfried after Lucia botches the accompaniment. - [Chapter Eight](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-08) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-08.md)) - Hermy and Ursy recognise the Guru as a Calcutta curry-cook, and he vanishes after robbing Lucia, Georgie and Daisy Quantock. - [Chapter Nine](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-09) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-09.md)) - Mrs Weston deduces that opera singer Olga Bracely has bought Old Place, and Lucia pretends she knew all along to spoil Georgie's news. - [Chapter Ten](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-10) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-10.md)) - Olga throws a gramophone party of games and dancing, Lucia arrives late and winces, then Olga sings Bach at church and Lucia plans a rival evening. - [Chapter Eleven](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-11) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-11.md)) - Lucia and Daisy Quantock clash over rival Saturday parties, Georgie realises he loves Olga, and Olga schemes to match Mrs Weston with Colonel Boucher. - [Chapter Twelve](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-12) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-12.md)) - Lucia dismisses Olga's quartet as the Brinton players, then learns they are the Spanish Quartet and cannot follow Cortese's Italian at dinner. - [Chapter Thirteen](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-13) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-13.md)) - Daisy Quantock brings medium Princess Popoffski to Riseholme for seances while excluding Lucia, then finds eyebrows and muslin proving fraud. - [Chapter Fourteen](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-14) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-14.md)) - Robert Quantock reads that Princess Popoffski was exposed as a fraud, so he buys and burns every newspaper to hide it from Daisy and Riseholme. - [Chapter Fifteen](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-15) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-15.md)) - Robert and Daisy confess they hid their medium's fraud, then Olga tells Georgie she is off to America and he says he adores her. - [Chapter Sixteen](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-16) ([Markdown](https://fourhandspress.co.uk/books/queen-lucia/chapter-16.md)) - Georgie catches Daisy Quantock dropping a pamphlet for lozenges she believes will make her grow taller, and she swears him to secrecy. --- ## 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.