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.—Plant 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
