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Dedicated to the Editor and the Directors of Time and Tide, in whose pages this diary first appeared (Diary of a Provincial Lady)  For Cass Canfield (The Provincial Lady Goes Further) Affectionately dedicated
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Peter Stucley
because of our long friendship
and as a tribute to many shared recollections
of Moscow, London, Edinburgh
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November 7th---Plant the indoor bulbs. (Diary of a Provincial Lady) June 9th.--Life takes on entirely new aspect, owing to astonishing and unprecedented success of minute and unpretentious literary effort, published last December, and--incredibly--written by myself. (The Provincial Lady Goes Further) July 7th.--Incredulous astonishment on receiving by second post--usually wholly confined to local bills and circulars concerning neighbouring Garden Fêtes--courteous and charming letter from publishers in America. (The Provincial Lady in America) September 1st, 1939.--Enquire of Robert whether he does not think that, in view of times in which we live, diary of daily events might be of ultimate historical value to posterity. (The Provincial Lady in Wartime) The Diary of a Provincial Lady is about ordinariness: the kind of placid, conformist ordinariness evoked by this exchange between the two women in E. M. Delafield's first play, To See Ourselves--produced on the London stage in the same month, December 1930, that the Provincial Lady first made her appearance in book form. (Introduction) | |
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Whatever E. M. Delafield described, she described accurately: as she wrote in 1935, "All that I have tried to do is to observe faithfully, and record accurately, the things that have come within my limited range. The fault that I have most tried to avoid is sentimentality." (Introduction) (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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The Diary of a Provincial Lady and Diary of a Provincial Lady are not the same book! Please do not combine them. The first is an omnibus edition containing volumes 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the Provincial Lady series. The second contains only the first work in that series. Several editions of the omnibus have been incorrectly entered with the wrong title. If this applies to you, please change the title of your copy instead of combining the two works together.
However, there is one editon (ISBN 1844085228, the VMC Anniversary Edition) that is titled The Diary of a Provincial Lady but contains only Diary of a Provincial Lady and is not the omnibus edition. (I can't help it if publishers do this!!!!) | |
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The Provincial Lady has a nice house, a nice husband (usually asleep behind The Times), and nice children. In fact, maintaining Niceness is the Provincial Lady’s goal in lifeher raison d'être. She never raises her voice, rarely ventures outside Devon (why would she?), only occasionally allows herself to become vexed by the ongoing servant problem, and would be truly appalled by the confessional mode that has gripped the late 20th century. The Provincial Lady, after all, is part of what made Britain great. (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:37:49 -0500) (see all 2 descriptions) ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. |
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I wouldn't know what readers then or now could get out of it, except as a way of passing the time. (