Edmee Elizabeth Monica Dashwood. First edition, first printing, 1930. Macmillan and Co, London. Illustrations by Arthur Watts. Original cover illustrated by Arthur Watts. 301 pages. Scarce work in its original format.

• Diary of a Lady from the Provinces is an entertaining and entertaining sequence of diary entries that E.M.Delafield published in a feminist magazine from the 1930s and which were later collected in this book. It is, therefore, about the vicissitudes of a middle-class woman written humorously. We also find reflections about the surrounding hypocrisy, the role of women, and domestic life, especially, represented in the figure of the hyacinth bulbs, which open the pages of this novel and are a recurring theme throughout. and its width. The author, with a scrutinizing look at her surroundings, observes the hypocrisy -and the human miseries- that she portrays with great sarcasm. Sarcasm is a resource that she also uses in that self-observation that she displays throughout her notes.