Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield (Author)

'November 7th. Plant the indoor bulbs. Just as I am in the middle of them, Lady Boxe calls. I say, untruthfully, how nice to see her, and beg her to sit down. . . Do I know, she asks, how very late it is for indoor bulbs?'

This fictional diary, which has many echoes of E. M. Delafield's own life, first appeared in instalments in Time and Tide, then in book form in 1930. It waas an immediate hit, speaking as it did to the millions of middle-class wives trapped in dull conventional marriages, struggling to pay the bills and keep up appearances in those difficult inter-war years. For us, the setting is different, but the brisk, unself-pitying voice of the Provincial Lady - married to the dependable but deeply boring Robert - still rings true. A funny, wryly observed picture of a marriage between the wars that anticipates those journalistic columns describing life in the 'squeezed middle' today.

Series:Slightly Foxed Editions
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Slightly Foxed Editions
Imprint:Slightly Foxed Editions
Edition:69 ed
ISBN:9781910898956
Published:1 Dec 2024
Classifications:Memoirs
Dimensions:170 x 110 (mm)