Tag: EM Delafield

• Short Story Sunday: A Seaside Holiday

  It’s Week Five of my Short Story Adventure, and I’m on the fourth tale in The Persephone Book of Short Stories. Holiday Group, by the wonderful EM Delafield (of Provincial Lady fame, hereand here), shows how summer breaks, however eagerly anticipated they may be, do not always live up to expectations, especially for harassed mothers…

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  June 16, 2013

  EM Delafield, Holiday Group, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, The Persephone Book of Short Stories, women’s roles

• Consequences – Beware of Spoilers

  If you don’t like spoilers, then don’t read this post, because I’m going to give away an ending! Now I realise that many of you don’t like to be told what happens in a novel, but I’ve always been quite happy to know the outcome in advance – indeed, sometimes I even sneak a peek…

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  September 12, 2012

  Consequences, EM Delafield, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, novel, suicide, Victorian

• The Provincial Daughter Needs a Voice of Her Own

  At the time it was first published (in 1960), Provincial Daughter, written by RM Dashwood, must have seemed a good idea – after all, it’s the diary of a fifties housewife, written by the daughter of EM Delafield, author of The Diary of a Provincial Lady. But it didn’t quite do it for me. At…

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  July 24, 2012

  1950s fiction, EM Delafield, Provincial Daughter, RM Dashwood, The Diary of a Provincial Lady

• The Provincial Lady in a Floral Cover

  I picked this up in the Oxfam shop (again), but I think it looks like abook on needlework, or a notebook,or drawliners, or writing paper. I started reading EM Delafield’s The Diary of a Provincial Lady online at Project Gutenberg Australia, which has all kinds of books unavailable on the British site, but they can’t…

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  July 5, 2012

  book cover, diary, EM Delafield, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Virago Modern Classics