CONSEQUENCES & THE WAR-WORKERS - E. M. Delafield
| Автор: | E. M. Delafield |
| Издательство: | Bookwire |
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| Жанр произведения: | Языкознание |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9788027202379 |
"The War-Workers" (1918) – The travails of working in a Supply Depot under the tyrannical control of Charmain Vivian, who meets her match in a newly arrived clergyman's daughter Grace Jones. "Consequences" (1919) – A young woman entering a convent. Its heroine, Alex Clare, refuses to marry the only young man to make her an offer of marriage, and, finding herself regarded as a failure by society, must resort to convent life. E. M. Delafield (1890-1943) was a prolific English author who is best known for her largely autobiographical works like Zella Sees Herself, The Provincial Lady Series etc. which look at the lives of upper-middle class Englishwomen.