'January 22nd - Robert startles me at breakfast by asking if my cold - which he has hitherto ignored - is better. I reply that it has gone. Then why, he asks, do I look like that? Feel that life is wholly unendurable, and decide madly to get a new hat' __ It's not easy being a Provincial Lady in D
The Provincial Lady--Complete Series (All 5 Novels With Original Illustrations): The Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady Goes Further, The Provincial Lady in America, The Provincial Lady in Russia & The Provincial Lady in Wartime
β Scribed by E. M. Delafield
- Book ID
- 111002392
- Publisher
- e-artnow
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9788026841739
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β¦ Synopsis
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Provincial Lady - Complete Series (All 5 Novels With Original Illustrations)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Provincial Lady series is guaranteed to make you laugh by its witty take on the foibles of a young upper middle-class English woman living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s. Excerpt:
"November 7th.βPlant the indoor bulbs. Just as I am in the middle of them, Lady Boxe calls. I say, untruthfully, how nice to see her, and beg her to sit down while I just finish the bulbs. Lady B. makes determined attempt to sit down in armchair where I have already placed two bulb-bowls and the bag of charcoal, is headed off just in time, and takes the sofa." (The Diary of a Provincial Lady)
E. M. Delafield (1890-1943) was a prolific English author and is best known for her largely witty and autobiographical Provincial Lady Series, which took the form of a journal.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
The Diary of a Provincial Lady
The Provincial Lady Goes Further
The Provincial Lady in America
The Provincial Lady in Russia (I Visit The Soviets)
The Provincial Lady in Wartime
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
This is the fourth and last of autobiographical novel series by English author E. M. Delafield (1890-1943). It takes the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman in the 1930s. The story of a volunteer in a woman's underground canteen service in England during the World War