Oh yes, very much! It's cheerful, very deftly written light satire, very funny, in a 1930s well-bred Punch column way. And as well, genuinely an insider's view of a particular literary-intellectual upper-middle-class life (though she downplays her own strong literary career in this book, in order to make the persona of Provincial Lady) with lots of reflections on fine social distinctions.
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Date: 2014-01-07 12:18 pm (UTC)And as well, genuinely an insider's view of a particular literary-intellectual upper-middle-class life (though she downplays her own strong literary career in this book, in order to make the persona of Provincial Lady) with lots of reflections on fine social distinctions.