The Book Trunk

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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading