The writer who would become E.M. Delafield, one of the most popular novelists of the 1930s, whose Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930) remains in print to this day, was born in 1890. Her mother was a novelist and her father a Count whose descendants had fled France in the Revolution; her childhood was a privileged one. This was contrasted with the nine months she spent in a French convent: Catholic themes would appear in some of her novels, such as Consequences (1918) and Turn Back the Leaves (1930). She was V.A.D in the First World War, and then worked in the Ministry of National Service: her novel The War Workers (1918) reflected her experiences of this. She married the son of a baronet in 1919, soon settling i…
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Citation: Turner, Nick. "E. M. Delafield". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 July 2014 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13244, accessed 26 November 2024.]
