EM Delafield is best-known as the author of "The Diary of a Provincial Lady" (1930). But her favourite among her books was "Consequences" (1919), the deeply-felt novel she wrote about the plight of girls given no opportunities apart from marriage.Alex Clare is awkward and oversensitive and gets everything wrong; she refuses to marry the only young man who 'offers' and believes there is nothing left for her but to enter a convent. But that is not quite the end of her tragic story. Nor was it for EM Delafield, who also entered a convent for a year; but in her case she was able to find freedom through working as a VAD in an army hospital, 'which was emancipation of the most delirious kind. It was occupation, it was self-respect.' Like Lytton Strachey's "Eminent Victorians", written at the same time, "Consequences" is a scream of horror against Victorian values; however, its ironic tone cannot disguise EM Delafield's deeply compassionate and feminist stance. The book has provoked strong reactions from our readers. Some have found Alex's naivety implausible, others have been very much moved by the incomprehension of those around her and by the ultimate tragedy of her life.
Genre: Romance
Genre: Romance
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Title: Consequences
Author(s): E M Delafield
ISBN: 1-5300-6585-2 / 978-1-5300-6585-1 (USA edition)
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Title: Consequences
Author(s): E M Delafield
ISBN: 1-5196-5309-3 / 978-1-5196-5309-3 (USA edition)
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Title: Consequences: (E.M Delafield Classics Collection)
Author(s): (E M Delafield
ISBN: 1-5086-1706-6 / 978-1-5086-1706-8 (USA edition)
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Title: Consequences
Author(s): E M Delafield
ISBN: 1-5076-3607-5 / 978-1-5076-3607-7 (USA edition)
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Title: Consequences
Author(s): E M Delafield
ISBN: 1-5059-1587-2 / 978-1-5059-1587-7 (USA edition)
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