Background
Lady Violet was the third daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford and Lady Mary Julia Child Villiers (daughter of Victor Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey).
(This is a biography of E.M.Delafield, born Edmee Elizabet...)
This is a biography of E.M.Delafield, born Edmee Elizabeth Monica de la Pasture, whose novel "The Diary of a Provincial Lady" was a best-seller. It includes analyses of her major works and her own vivid account of her months in a Belgian convent.
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Lady Violet was the third daughter of Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford and Lady Mary Julia Child Villiers (daughter of Victor Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey).
She was educated at Street Margaret"s School, Bushey.
Her husband was author Anthony Powell. She was herself a distinguished memoirist and biographer. Her The Life of a Provincial Lady (1988), on the life of East. M. Delafield, has been called by one critic "one of the best literary biographies of a British writer in the twentieth century".
Those who knew the couple well believed that Lady Violet made significant contributions to the richness, depth and polish of her husband"s work.
She also wrote a biography of the English novelist Flora Annie Steel. She is generally taken to be the model for the character of Isobel Tolland in her husband"s novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time.
(This is a biography of E.M.Delafield, born Edmee Elizabet...)
(Light wear to boards. Light toning to pages with front en...)