Diary of a Provincial Lady Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper ’ writes the American academic

’ writes the American academic Patricia McClelland Miller in her Persephone Preface

The stories are read by Lucy Scott

with its struggles and breakthroughs

If every man in England married a girl like Bettina Vanderpoel

and in doing it she has drawn an all but faultless picture of what has sometimes been described as the "lost generation"

Diary of a Provincial Lady Gift Wrapping:Cambridge Imprint paper ’ writes the American academicAFTERWORD BY NICOLA BEAUMAN 368pp ISBN 9781903155950 This great classic of domestic literature initially appeared in weekly instalments in Time and Tide, the feminist weekly. Some might find it an oxymoron that a book is both domestic and feminist. But this is the central remit of Persephone Books and the reason why Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930) is a quintessential title for us; and why, although there are other editions in print (EM Delafield is