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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book!  I came upon it because I joined a GoodReads group called &quot;Britain Between the Wars&quot; - I didn't know anyone in it, just liked the sound of it.  And they emailed me that this book was the next to read.  <br/><br/>The Provincial Lady is a woman who is writing in her diar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72775047">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was fabulous. I love anything set in interwar-era England and the humor is exactly to my taste. <br/><br/>&quot;Find myself indulging in rather melodramatic fantasy of Bentley crashing into enormous motor-bus and being splintered to atoms. Permit chauffeur to escape unharmed, but fate of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58483022">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I adored this darkly witty take on British life in the country. Very Mapp and Lucia, in the best way, with the added delight of the diarist's asides on  motherhood. I'm sorry it took me so long to find it but I think now was the perfect time to read it. <br/><br/>Also, sorry that there's no pictur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44515900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Such a funny book in that dry British way. This was originally published in the 1930's - the story is written in the form of a diary of a middle-class housewife living in the English countryside. Strangely enough, this sort of reminded me of Bridget Jones' Diary (written 60 years earlier), although ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74826460">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OMG! This is one of the funniest things I've ever read. It came out in the 1930s and is such a great commentary on English country life. But the author is just so very droll. Her language is crisp, dripping with sarcasm, and brilliantly witty. It's a fast read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Delafield's unnamed narrator relates the happenings of her quiet life in this classic, published in 1931.  A husband (Robert), and two children keep her life busy, although she feels that her means are straitened, despite having four servants (!).  An occasional financial windfall is spent and respe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80243011">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dismayed to discover the contagious effect of Delafield's pronoun-lacking style and am beginning to wonder when &quot;I&quot; shall return to my sentences. ;)<br/>************************<br/>Delafield offers a wry look at 1930s middle-class English life. A fun read and I think I would have enjoye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51224451">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is not my cup of tea.  I do like British humor, but I only laughed once 3/4 of the way through. I just don't relate to the feelings expressed (or under-expressed) by the main character.  Really, let's whine about our servants, mentally roll our eyes at everyone we speak to, overdraw our ac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64689208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read E M Delafield's series of &quot;Provincial Lady&quot; diaries when I was in my teens. I loved the books and the minutae about life of the middle class  family in the 1930s and in a later book entitled &quot;The Provincial Lady in Wartime&quot;. I was so impressed with the presentation of even...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63594737">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[British wit is good stuff. Comments about life are insightful, poignant and witty. Style of writing proves challenge as desire to learn more about character weighs heavily. (Query: do women such as this still exist, and if so, can I have a cup of tea with them on a frequent basis?)<br/><br/>See my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74977557">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I once again enjoyed time reading Delafield's Provincial Lady (this is my second shot). I think the fun is, even though she was a 1930's English lady, she wasn't provincial and she was very modern.  She generously shares with you in her diary all that is wrong, right, funny,frustrating, domestic, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74842797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fictional diary of an English country woman burdened with a taciturn husband, two kids, a French governess, tiresome neighbors, and the mundane details of trying to run a household on not quite enough money. Sounds like it would be dreary, but her voice is witty, wise, and remarkably relevant to mod...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73658316">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dull.  Not what I expected after reading all the other reviews.  Found the woman to be extrememly superficial. Pawning jewelry to spend money for unnecessary purchases, just to keep up appearances, is NOT what I would consider funny.  The husband is bored, the children are raised by others, the serv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65611256">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[very funny diary style book about a middle-class, pre-war country lady, endlessly struggling to keep up appearances, balance her bank account and keep on good terms with Our Vicar's Wife, and other local bigWigs.<br/><br/>Very funny (if dated). The 'diary' was originally printed as an on-going ser...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64332560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this recently but am not really in the mood right now. It is the 1930s married version of Bridget Jones, in a way--the diary of a married British woman trying to keep up with the times and avoid nosy neighbors and deal with a bored husband. She's not obsessed with her weight and she doesn'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44754939">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't remember if this is interwar or Edwardian, so I've tagged it as both. It wasn't very interesting. I thought it might be sort of a satire, the kind where they don't say what they mean but you know what they mean and it is a delicate critique or whatever, but it's actually half Bridget Jones (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52996776">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all-time favourites and the sort of book I go back to when I want to relax.  Best read along with the biography of E.M by Violet Powell called &quot;Provincial Lady&quot; and the next-generation sequel by her own daughter &quot;Provincial Daughter&quot; by R.M. Dashwood.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Diary of a Provincial Lady</em> is a wryly, gently satirical look at the lives led by upper-middle class British women in the period between the two world wars. For its time, it's quite subversive, with the Provincial Lady chafing against the restrictions placed on her by her gender and position. Delafie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37239677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this books 20 yrs ago and took it out of library to read it again.  E.M. Delafield writes about WW1 in England, how people coped in the villages, how life was at that time.  Well written -- hope I enjoy it as much the 2nd time around.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I laughed out loud quite a few times at this typically English lady's observations regarding her family and household.  I think I enjoyed this even more than I would have if I had not read <u>The Anglo Files</u> last summer.]]></body>
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