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The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.

E. M. Delafield

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E. M. Delafield
Age: 53 †
Born: 1890
Born: June 9
Died: 1943
Died: December 2
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Steyning
West Sussex
Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood
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Edmée Elizabeth Monica Ducarel de la Pasture
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