Its frontispiece quotes from The Diary of a Nobody by George
and Weedon Grossmith
: I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat.
Delafield, E. M. The Way Things Are. Harper, 1928.
prelims
Textual Features
E. M. Delafield
In her use of the diary form with prosaic narrator, EMD
was probably influenced by George
and Weedon Grossmith
's The Diary of a Nobody (1892). The autobiographical fiction, set in a small Devon village...
Timeline
June 1892: The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon...
Writing climate item
June 1892
The Diary of a Nobody by George
and Weedon Grossmith
was published as a book in Bristol, expanded from the serial form which had appeared in Punch in 1888-9.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
