The Provincial Lady in Wartime Author:E. M. Delafield E. M. Delafields Provincial Lady is American by adoption if not by birth. Gay, witty, shrewdly perceptive, she has delighted two continents with her unmincing descriptions of our contemporary world. Now her diary is brought up-to-date by an account of her adventures- and misadventures- in England during the early weeks of the current war.