Consequences
Author | : E. M. Delafield |
Publisher | : Lindhardt og Ringhof |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2022-12-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9788726552805 |
ISBN-13 | : 8726552809 |
Rating | : 4/5 (809 Downloads) |
Download or read book Consequences written by E. M. Delafield and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Consequences" (1919) follows the life of Alexandra Clare, an upper class Catholic girl from London, after she turns down her only suitor. Alex is a misfit and having failed to meet her family’s expectations, she joins a convent. Partly autobiographical, Delafield writes this story in a deeply ironic tone, turning Alex’s plight into a condemnation of the suffocating expectations Victorian society had for women. E. M. Delafield was the pen name of Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (1890-1943). She was a British author from Sussex and the daughter of a count and a novelist. Delafield was raised following Late Victorian upper class morals, and when at age 21 she found herself still single, she joined a French covenant in Belgium. But she soon tired of being a nun and left monastery life behind. During WWI, she volunteered as a nurse in Exeter. In 1919, she married civil engineer turned land agent Paul Dashwood, with whom she spent three years in Malaysia. She remains most famous today for her semi-autobiographical "Diary of a Provincial Lady," which had started as a column in the weekly woman’s magazine "Time and Tide."