Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, conocida como E.M. Delafield, fue una escritora británica. Nació en Sussex, el 9 de junio de 1880 y falleció en Devon, el 2 de diciembre de 1943.
Después de terminar el colegio, decidió ingresar en un convento, pero lo abandonó poco después.
Trabajó como enfermera en la Primera Guerra Mundial, al tiempo que comenzaba a publicar sus primeros escritos. Continuó publicando una o dos novelas al año durante toda su vida.
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Obras:
Serie Una dama de provincias –
- Diario de una dama de provincias. Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930)
- La dama de provincias prospera. The Provincial Lady Goes Further (1932).
- The Provincial Lady in America (1934).
- The Provincial Lady in War-Time (1940).
Otras novelas –
- Zella Sees Herself (1917)
- The War-Workers (1918)
- The Pelicans (1918)
- Consequences (1919)
- Tension (1920)
- The Heel of Achilles (1920)
- Humbug (1921)
- The Optimist (1922)
- A Reversion to Type (1923)
- Messalina of the Suburbs (1924) — based on the Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters murder case of 1922
- Mrs Harter (1924)
- The Chip and the Block (1925)
- Jill (1926)
- The Way Things Are (1927)
- The Suburban Young Man (1928)
- What Is Love? (1928) — published in America as First Love
- Turn Back the Leaves (1930)
- Challenge to Clarissa (1931) — published in America as House Party
- Thank Heaven Fasting (1932)
- Gay Life (1933)
- The Bazalgettes (1936) — a spoof Victorian novel, originally published anonymously
- «Faster! Faster!» (1936)
- Nothing Is Safe (1937)
- Three Marriages (1938) — novellas, published in America as When Women Love
- No One Now Will Know (1941)
- Late and Soon (1943)
Cuentos –
- The Entertainment (1927) — short story collection
- Women Are Like That (1929) — short story collection
- General Impressions (1933) — sketches originally published in Time and Tide
- As Others Hear Us: A Miscellany (1937) — sketches originally published in Punch and Time and Tide
- Love Has No Resurrection (1939) — short story collection.
Teatro –
- To See Ourselves (1930)
- The Glass Wall (1932)
- Crime on the Hill (1933) — a screenplay written with Vera Allinson
- The Little Boy (1934) — a radio play
- Moonlight Sonata (1938) — a screenplay written with Edward Knoblock
No ficción –
- The Brontës: Their Lives Recorded by Their Contemporaries (1935)
- Ladies and Gentlemen in Victorian Fiction (1937)
- Straw Without Bricks: I Visit Soviet Russia (1937).
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