Diary of a Provincial Lady

Published in 1930, this comic novel is cast as the diary of an unnamed woman managing a household in an English country parish. She records the demands of her husband Robert, the children Robin and Vicky, a cook, a French governess, the village's Lady B., and a constant shortage of ready money. Entries cover Women's Institute meetings, guest-room crises, London visits, and the gap between what she thinks and what she says. The humour lies in the daily negotiation of class, clothes, and domestic staff. It is a social comedy in diary form, not a confession or a mystery, and it stays close to one house and its calendar.

Bound in grey cloth with a design in red by Bentley. Dark green endleaves. Dark red or dark blue slipcase.