Tag: The Diary of a Provincial Lady

• 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…

  chrisharding53

  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…

  chrisharding53

  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