EM Delafield

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Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood , née de la Pasture (born June 9, 1890 - December 2, 1943 ), better known under her pseudonym EM Delafield , was a British writer. Her pseudonym as the author is derived from her maiden name.

Dela Fields well tester and to date DOMICILED novel is the most autobiographical novel " Diary of a Lady in the country " ( Diary of a Provincial Lady ), the upper middle class in diary form the life of a British woman in a in Devon told village during the 1930s . The British newspaper The Guardian included the story in its 2009 literary canon 1000 Novels everyone must read .

Life

Delafield was born in Steyning , Sussex . She was the eldest daughter of Count Henry Philip Ducarel de la Pasture and Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle, who was known and successful as a writer under the name Mrs Henry de la Pasture . After the death of Henry Philip Ducarel de la Pasture, Delafield's mother married Sir Hugh Charles Clifford , who was governor of the Gold Coast from 1912 to 1919 , then in Nigeria until 1925 , from 1925 to 1927 in Ceylon and from 1927 to 1929 in the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner of the Malay States served as colonial governor.

Delafield herself joined a French order as a postulant in 1911 , which she soon left. After the outbreak of World War I, she worked as a nurse in Exeter. Her first novel Zella Sees Herself was published in 1917, before the end of the First World War. After the war ended, she worked for a regional office for the UK Labor Department in Bristol and published two other novels.

On July 17, 1919, she married Colonel Arthur Paul Dashwood, the second (and therefore not entitled to inheritance) son of the Dashwoods' baronet family. Arthur Paul Dashwood was an engineer who, among other things, was responsible for the expansion of Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong. However, after two years in Southeast Asia, Delafield insisted on returning to the UK. The couple settled in Kentisbeare , Devon and Arthur Paul Dashwood worked for the Bradfields' estate as custodians. The children Lionel and Rosamund, later successful as a runner, emerged from the marriage. Delafield was elected chairman of the Women's Institute in Kentisbeare and held that office until her death.

Literary work

Delafield, who adored the British writer Charlotte M. Yonge and was a great connoisseur of the Brontë siblings , published at least one novel a year from 1919 until almost the end of her life. She was good friends with the well-to-do suffragette and publisher Margaret Mackworth , and was appointed one of the directors of the British literary magazine Time and Tide . For this magazine, which was published weekly at the time, Delafield developed the "Diary of a Lady in the Country" in 1930, which appeared as a weekly column. It was later published as a book and is the author's best-known work. Delafield and her narrative were parodied as Esmé Delacroix in the 2004 Simpson episode Diatribe of a Mad Housewife .

Novels and short stories

  • Zella Sees Herself (1915)
  • A Perfectly True Story
  • The War Workers (1918).
  • The Pelicans (1918)
  • Consequences (1919)
  • Tension (1920)
  • The Heel of Achilles (1920)
  • Humbug (1921)
  • The Optimist (1922)
  • A Reversion to Type (1923)
  • The Sincerest Form ... (1924)
  • Messalina of the Suburbs (1924)
  • Mrs Harter (1924)
  • The Chip and the Block (1925)
  • Jill (1926)
  • The Entertainment (1927)
  • The Way Things Are (1927)
  • The Suburban Young Man (1928)
  • What is love? (1928)
  • Women are Like That (1929)
  • Turn Back the Leaves (1930)
  • Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930)
  • Challenge to Clarissa (1931)
  • The Provincial Lady Goes Further (1932)
  • Thank Heaven Fasting (1932)
  • Gay Life (1933)
  • General Impressions (1933)
  • The Provincial Lady in America (1934)
  • The Brontes, their lives recorded by their contemporaries (1935)
  • The Bazalgettes (1936)
  • Faster! Faster! (1936)
  • As Others Hear Us: A Miscellany (1937)
  • Nothing is Safe (1937)
  • Ladies and Gentlemen in Victorian Fiction (1937)
  • Straw Without Bricks: I Visit Soviet Russia (1937)
  • Three Marriages (1939)
  • The Provincial Lady in Wartime (1940)
  • No One Now Will Know (1941) ".
  • Late and Soon (1943)
  • Love Has No Resurrection (1939)

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literature

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personal data
SURNAME Delafield, EM
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dashwood, Edmée Elizabeth Monica (real name); Pasture, Edmée Elizabeth Monica de la (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1890
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1943