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Loading... Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930)by E. M. Delafield
Quite amusing. But how different, how very different, from the home life of my own sister-in-law! (Who lives in one half of what was E. M. Delafield's house.) (  )1   annesadleir | Oct 21, 2012 |  Diary of a Provincial Lady is just the absolutely most boring book. The first 80 pages or so, are kind of OK, from the historical point of view, as the reader gets a peek into the interbellum; Naturally, nothing ever happens in the life of a provincial lady, even one with literary aspirations, so the book is a chain series of gossip + husband + reading list. The provincial lady mainly reads a lot of second, and third-rate novels from the Edwardian era to her own time. I wouldn't know what readers then or now could get out of it, except as a way of passing the time. (  ) edwinbcn | Sep 7, 2012 | Abandoned 1/3 of the way in. A lady finds life so confusing while having to deal with servants who make her life possible but insist on having their own opinions. When she writes about writers or writing she was perceptive and amusing. Otherwise, I kind of wanted to drown her. (  ) Citizenjoyce | Aug 26, 2012 | Written as a diary, this look into life 80 years ago shines brightly. She faces so much of what modern women face. Even though she is a housewife and mother with servents, I am certain she is busier than I am and I work full time too. Her thoughts tickle just right, especially about never looking to close at one's own motives as one may become uncomfortable. Or the lies we tell to be gracious. She is always reading something or the other, and I found myself making lists of her books to put on my TBR shelf. (  ) BeckyMcW | Nov 25, 2011 | The diary portrays the life of a middle-class suburbian woman as she tackles her household with all its eccentricities, bills, children and most importantly the snobby neighbors. Allows you to experience reality with a pinch of much needed humor. ( ) Ashraks | Nov 21, 2011 | no reviews | add a review Is contained in
No descriptions found. This is a gently self-effacing, dry-witted tale of a long-suffering and disaster-prone Devon lady of the 1930s. A story of provincial social pretensions and the daily inanities of domestic life to rival George Grossmith's "Diary of a Nobody". |
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