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.
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