Tilling (Sussex) Tilling Green, in the fictional county of Ledshire, appeared in one of Patricia Wentworth's Miss Silver stories, "Poison in the Pen" (1955). Tilling (Sussex) Tilling is a fictional coastal town, based on Rye, East Sussex, in the "Mapp and Lucia" novels of Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940). Tilling takes its name from the River Tillingham which flows through Rye. Benson himself moved to Rye in 1918, where he lived in Lamb House, former home of the novelist Henry James. Benson was mayor of Rye 1934-7 and was elected Speaker of the Cinque Ports in 1936. Tilling first appeared in "Miss Mapp"
Camilla Tilling Camilla Tilling Camilla Tilling (born 1971) is a Swedish soprano in opera and concert. Born in Linköping, Camilla Tilling studied at the "Högskolan för scen och musik" in Göteborg (1997–98) and at the Royal College of Music in London, where she graduated in 1998. Her opera debut was the role of Olympia in Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann" in Göteborg in 1997. At the New York City Opera she appeared as Corinna in Rossini’s "Il viaggio a Reims", in 2002 at Covent Garden as Sophie in "Der Rosenkavalier" of Richard Strauss, conducted by Simone Young, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as