Tilling (Sussex) 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" (1922) and subsequently in "The Male Impersonator" and "Desirable Residences" (short stories of 1929), "Mapp and Lucia" (1931), set between June 1930
La Nouvelle Vie Ouvrière social issues and international problems. It provides much insight into the views of the revolutionary syndicalists by whom and for whom the journal was created. The writers were highly aware of the needs of the modern proletariat. The journal closed at the outbreak of World War I (1914–18), a symbolic decision agreed by all. Its influence is hard to measure, but in its day it was known to most militants in France and abroad. La Nouvelle Vie Ouvrière La Nouvelle Vie Ouvrière ("The New Worker's Life") ou NVO is a French trade union magazine first published in 1909 under the