The Provincial Lady At Home And Abroad: Containing Diary Of A Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady Goes Further, The Provincial Lady In America
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Author: E. M. Delafield
Binding: Hardback
Published: Macmillan and Company Limited, 1935
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Faded spine. Bumping on corners. Light foxing on prelims and book block. Clean text.
This 1935 Empire Omnibus edition assembles three satirical novels chronicling the domestic and transatlantic misadventures of E. M. Delafield’s iconic Provincial Lady. With sharp wit and understated irony, Delafield presents a middle-class Englishwoman navigating the social absurdities of Devonshire life, literary ambition, and cultural clashes in America. The trilogy illustrates the tension between genteel expectations and personal agency, capturing the protagonist’s internal commentary with diary-style immediacy. Each volume builds on the Lady’s evolving self-awareness, offering a humorous yet incisive portrait of interwar femininity and class.
Author: E. M. Delafield
Binding: Hardback
Published: Macmillan and Company Limited, 1935
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Faded spine. Bumping on corners. Light foxing on prelims and book block. Clean text.
This 1935 Empire Omnibus edition assembles three satirical novels chronicling the domestic and transatlantic misadventures of E. M. Delafield’s iconic Provincial Lady. With sharp wit and understated irony, Delafield presents a middle-class Englishwoman navigating the social absurdities of Devonshire life, literary ambition, and cultural clashes in America. The trilogy illustrates the tension between genteel expectations and personal agency, capturing the protagonist’s internal commentary with diary-style immediacy. Each volume builds on the Lady’s evolving self-awareness, offering a humorous yet incisive portrait of interwar femininity and class.