Part of Series
E.M.Delafield wrote in the thirties an extraordinary set of books that were put together under the series "The Provincial Lady". After the success of the previous books, her editor asked her to go to Russia in the "in-between-wars" period, and write a "funny" book about that country. Although the style and humor are slightly different than the others in the series, it manages to be on itself a thoroughly interesting book about one woman's experiences in Communist Russia in the early 1930's.
Author
Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (9 June 1890 – 2 December 1943), commonly known as E. M. Delafield, was a prolific English author who is best-known for her largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady, which took the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s, and its sequels in which the Provincial Lady buys a flat in London and travels to America. Other sequels of note are her experiences looking for war-work during the Phoney War in 1939, and her experiences as a tourist in the Soviet Union. Daughter of the novelist Mrs. Henry De La Pasture.
