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'Lady B. remains to tea. (Mem.: Bread-and-butter too solid. Talk with Ethel.) We discuss even more about bulbs, the Dutch Institution of Painting, our Vicar's partner, sciatica, and All Quiet on the Traditional western Entrance. (Query: is it possible to cultivate the artwork of conversation when living in the country all the entire year round?)' If the question suggests a qualified answer, there is absolutely no uncertainty that the artwork of diary writing is alive and well and incredibly, very funny in Devonshire in the 1920s. At least in the hands of E. M. Delafield. Though poles aside in lots of ways, Bridget Jones's Journal could not have existed without her sometimes arch, often lofty, but deeply British upper middle class forbear. Diary of any Provincial Female is a vintage of its time, exposing the thoughts and concerns of a female embedded in family life and the mores of comfortable country life. She has a man 'lifted to the peerage', two children and servants; she actually is burdened by the superior Female Boxe, the tiresome vicar's partner and the frequent temptation to have beyond her regular monthly household allowance. But she soldiers on, saving her days with serious observation, wit, self-deprecation and colour. A balance to the Bloomsbury strength of the day, this is a vintage that has never been out of print and now comes to life in this pitch-perfect reading by Georgina Sutton.

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