Tilling (Sussex) and the spring of 1931, in which Emmeline Lucas ("Lucia") and Elizabeth Mapp clashed for the first time, "Lucia's Progress" (1935) and "Trouble for Lucia" (1939). The novelist Susan Leg, the subject of "Secret Lives" (1932), re-appeared in "Trouble for Lucia". The first Lucia book, "Queen Lucia", was published in 1920. It was followed in 1927 by "Lucia in London". Benson's "The Freaks of Mayfair" (1916) provided the genesis of some of the characters of Tilling. Specifically, "Aunt Georgie", a bachelor with a penchant for embroidery, provided the model for George Pillson, who, as with Lucia, with whom he entered
La Vie Petit, Max Armanet and Jean-Pierre Denis . Since 1945, the magazine was published by "le groupe de presse La Vie catholique", which in 2003 became a part of the larger Groupe La Vie-Le Monde. In 2001, "La Vie" created a charitable association which as of 2006 had around three thousand members, based in fifty-odd regional centres across France, called "Les Amis de La Vie" ("Friends of La Vie"). This organisation gave deeper meaning to the magazine's tagline, "a paper written with its readers", by organising meetings, debates, and summer programmes. The publication is independent of the Catholic hierarchy. Because the