Maudie Littlehampton appeared in whose pocket cartoons in the Daily Express?
Maudie Littlehampton Maudie Littlehampton Maud, Countess of Littlehampton, known as Maudie, is a cartoon character created by Osbert Lancaster. From the late 1940s until Lancaster’s retirement in 1981 Maudie was the leading character in his regular cast of his pocket cartoons in "The Daily Express". For a humorous exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1973, Lancaster created a lineage and background for Maudie. She is supposedly the only daughter of Sir Julian Manifest, Bt, and his wife Lady Claribel Manifest, third daughter of the 5th Marquess of Pontefract. Lancaster's biography of her records her as a debutante in the late
Maudie Littlehampton non-party independent member of her local council, and as chairman of its planning committee she successfully strove to preserve the green belt around the town of Draynefleet. Lancaster had been contributing pocket cartoons to "The Daily Express" since 1939, but it was not until after the war that he developed a repertory company of characters in whose mouths he put his social and political jokes. Maudie quickly became his star character and principal mouthpiece. She began as what he called "a slightly dotty class symbol", but developed into "a voice of straightforward comment which might be my own". Her comments