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...
Intertextuality and Influence
E. M. Delafield
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.
prelims
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/.