E. M. Delafield Premium Collection

by E.M. Delafield

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“Zella Sees Herself” (1915) - Zella is a beautiful orphan who must come to terms with her mother’s death in a largely hostile world. The Novel is largely autobiographical and the first written work of E. M. Delafield.

“The War-Workers” (1918) - The travails of working in a Supply Depot under the tyrannical control of Charmain Vivian, who meets her match in a newly arrived clergyman's daughter Grace Jones.

“Consequences” (1919) - A young woman entering a convent. Its heroine, Alex Clare, refuses to marry the only young man to make her an offer of marriage, and, finding herself regarded as a failure by society, must resort to convent life.

“Tension” (1920) - Pauline Marchrose is a successful candidate, a woman claiming to be 28 but probably in her early thirties, when women are only beginning to fight for their rights and for equal opportunities.

“The Heel of Achilles” (1921) - A middle-class young woman Lydia Raymond who intends to marry “above her” during the first world war in England while her daughter Jane rebels against her.

“Humbug: A Study in Education” (1922) - The protagonist Lilly is a charming character who in spite of believing in the goodness of things is bogged down by her family and society to conform.

E. M. Delafield (1890-1943) was a prolific English author. She is best known for her largely autobiographical works like Zella Sees Herself, The Provincial Lady Series etc. which look at the lives of upper-middle class Englishwomen.

1980 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 30, 2015

About the author

Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (9 June 1890 – 2 December 1943), commonly known as 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. Other sequels of note are her experiences looking for war-work during the Phoney War in 1939, and her experiences as a tourist in the Soviet Union.

Daughter of the novelist Mrs. Henry De La Pasture.

Reviews

[Mrs Jennifer Ann Shoesmith · Rating 2 out of 5]

Terrible typos

I think these works must have started out as beautifully sensitive, gentle yet brilliantly astute social commentaries of their time. Of their time they would have been eminently acceptable reads. Possibly even shocking to the Philips of early twentieth society. But I wasn't shocked, indeed, by the end I was becoming somewhat bored.
Part of the boredom was caused by the most abominable typos, some so appalling that the meaning of the phrase, or sentence is completely lost. As was the potential enjoyment.