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DescriptionA special edition of The Provincial Lady by E. M. Delafield reissued with a bright retro design to celebrate Pan's 70th anniversary. Promotion infoAn abridged edition of E. M. Delafield's Diary of a Provincial Lady and The Provincial Lady Goes Further. ReviewsThe most amusing diarist who has appeared since Mr. Pooter kept his Diary of a Nobody [by George Grossmith] . . . one of the most delightful pieces of comedy I've read for years * News Chronicle * Miss Delafield's humour is crisp and unforced . . . every page has an unexpected twist * Daily Mail * It is a simple domestic chronicle, gloriously funny * Yorkshire Post * Author descriptionE. M. Delafield (1890-1943) was born in Sussex. Her mother was also a well-known novelist, writing as Mrs Henry de la Pasture, and Delafield chose her pen name based on a suggestion by her sister Yoe. A debutante in 1909, Delafield was accepted as a postulant by a French religious order in 1911 but decided against joining, a topic she explores in her novel Consequences (1919). Delafield worked as a nurse in a Voluntary Aid Detachment following the outbreak of the First World War, and her first novel Zella Sees Herself was written during this time and published in 1917. Diary of a Provincial Lady, her most successful novel, inspired several sequels and is a tongue-in-cheek portrayal of Delafield herself, written after a request by the editor of Time and Tide for some `light middles' in serial form. |