The Provincial Lady
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E. M. Delafield (1890-1943) was born in Sussex. Her mother was also a well-known novelist writing as Mrs Henry de la Pasture and Delafield chose her pen name based on a suggestion by her sister Yoe. A debutante in 1909 Delafield was accepted as a postulant by a French religious order in 1911 but decided against joining a topic she explores in her novel Consequences (1919). Delafield worked as a nurse in a Voluntary Aid Detachment following the outbreak of the First World War and her first novel Zella Sees Herself was written during this time and published in 1917. Diary of a Provincial Lady her most successful novel inspired several sequels and is a tongue-in-cheek portrayal of Delafield herself written after a request by the editor of Time and Tide for some ''light middles'' in serial form.