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The Provincial Lady in London [AKA The Provincial Lady Goes Further] (Provincial Lady #2)

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Title:The Provincial Lady in London [AKA The Provincial Lady Goes Further] (Provincial Lady #2)
Author:
Dashwood, Edmée Elizabeth Monica (née de la Pasture)  Writing under the pseudonym: Delafield, E. M.   
(7 of 9 for author by title)
The Provincial Lady in Wartime (Provincial Lady #4)
The Provincial Lady in America (Provincial Lady #3)
Published:   1933
Publisher:Academy Chicago
Tags:autobiography, diary, non-fiction, satire
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E. M. Delafield, was a prolific English author who is best-known for her largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady, which took the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s, and its sequels in which the Provincial Lady buys a flat in London and travels to America.--Goodreads.com.

The era of the 1930s is wittily and shrewdly recreated with amusing illustrations. The P.L. finds herself slogging through the mud of a collective farm, coping with Soviet trains and hotels and almost literally rubbing shoulders with robust citizens at a public beach.--Goodreads.com. [Suggest a different description.]

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Author Bio for Dashwood, Edmée Elizabeth Monica (née de la Pasture)

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E. M. Delafield (1890-1943) was an English author. Edmée Elizabeth Monica de la Pasture was born in Sussex, England to parents of former French aristocracy. She grew up in Edwardian England which is reflected in her writing. She joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment at the outbreak of World War One and worked for the Ministry of National Services in Bristol. She married Major Arthur Paul Dashwood of the Royal Engineers and they had a son and a daughter. Eventually they settled in Devon, where she lived a life amongst the genteel provincial middle class. She published her first novel in 1917 and followed this with 40 more books, mainly fiction over the next twenty years. She was known for gentle satire of mundane middle-class life. This is highlighted in a series of books about 'a provincial lady'. "Thank Heaven Fasting" is generally agreed to be her best work. Some of her fiction addresses social issues such as "Nothing is Safe" about the impact of divorce on children. "Messalina of the Suburbs" is based on the infamous Thompson-Bywaters murder case. (The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers)

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