The Diary of a Provincial Lady

Widely regarded as one of the funniest English authors and an heir to Jane Austen, E. M. Delafield was born in Sussex in 1890. She took the name Delafield to distinguish herself from her mother (De la Pasture), also a novelist, and wrote over 30 books which could be 'as laugh-out-loud funny as PG Wodehouse' before her death in 1943.