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E.M. Delafield
Paperback | Pages: 388 pages Rating: 3.94 | 4157 Users | 578 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Diary of a Provincial Lady |
| ISBN: | 0897330536 (ISBN13: 9780897330534) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Provincial Lady #1 |
| Setting: | Devonshire, England,1930 |
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When Diary of a Provincial Lady was first published in 1930, critics on both sides of the Atlantic greeted it with enthusiasm. This charming, delightful and extremely funny book about daily life in a frugal English household was named by booksellers as the out-of-print novel most deserving of republication.This is a gently self-effacing, dry-witted tale of a long-suffering and disaster-prone Devon lady of the 1930s. A story of provincial social pretensions and the daily inanities of domestic life to rival George Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody.
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| Title | : | Diary of a Provincial Lady (The Provincial Lady #1) |
| Author | : | E.M. Delafield |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 388 pages |
| Published | : | August 30th 2005 by Academy Chicago Publishers (first published 1930) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Humor. European Literature. British Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.94 From 4157 Users | 578 ReviewsAssessment Appertaining To Books Diary of a Provincial Lady (The Provincial Lady #1)
The Diary of a Provincial Lady is a charming, wry, satirical glimpse into the world of the upper-middle class in Devonshire, England in the late 1920s/early 1930s.In 1929, the large-circulation feminist weekly magazine Time and Tide, wanted something light and readable, preferably in serial form, to fill the centre pages, and thus The Provincial Lady was born. Seemingly at once, E.M. Delafield discovered her true vocation was as a comic writer. The book version was published in 1930, and TheLovely, funny, amazingly relatable! Not that many people seem to know of this book nowadays, but its influence is very much present in popular best-sellers such as Bridget Jones and the Shopaholic series. In fact I am now convinced that Bridget Jones is basically a reboot of this book for the 90s, with some Pride and Prejudice and some Cosmo nonsense thrown in. (The Cosmo influence is probably why Bridget Jones sounds positively regressive next to this book, which is actually from the 1930s).
Sorry, but I enjoyed Henrietta's War and Henrietta Sees it Through by Joyce Dennys much more. I will try the others and see if I like them.
3.5*This book, written in the form of a journal, charts the day to day life of a 1930's wife and mother, not only juggling husband, children and her temperamental cook, but also trying to keep up with the many social obligations she finds herself faced with, whilst remaining cool, calm and collected.It's a witty and amusing peep into how one woman copes with keeping up appearances, despite having a husband who is much more interested in his newspaper than her social dilemmas, as well as snobby
"March 12th. Resign from Book of the Month, owing to wide and ever-increasing divergence of opinion between us as to merits or demerits of recently published fiction. Write them long and eloquent letter about this, but remember after it is posted that I still owe them twelve shillings and sixpence for Maurois's Byron."I adored this book! I've been saving it for about ten years, because I tend to do that with books I know I will absolutely love. And I wasn't off the mark. I found this book
This is me. At least if I was a 1930's English country wife. Lavishing my children, barely mentioning my husband and escaping to London or abroad whenever possible. Then there's juggling the finances, fobbing off the banks, trying to retain the cook and choosing which new hat to purchase. Screamingly funny, if you enjoy reading about an upper class lady trying to have it all, or at least muddle through.
1. This is good to read if you're interested in the origins of blog as a genre. The author essentially thinly disguises her life as fiction in an attempt to earn some money by way of entering literary competitions, something that was one of very few ways of earning money available to a woman of her social position. The strength of the book lies in the humour (but it's pretty watered down and barely caustic, unless you're really unacquainted with the variety) and the way the writer presents
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