What American actress portrayed the early life of an English author?
Anne Hathaway on screen and stage Anne Hathaway is an American actress who has appeared in film and stage. She made her acting debut in the short lived television series "Get Real" (1999-2000). Hathaway's breakthrough role came with the role of Mia Thermopolis in the successful Disney comedy "The Princess Diaries" (2001). The role established her as a teen idol and she later reprised the role in its . This was followed by a string of family-oriented films, including "Nicholas Nickleby" (2002) and "Ella Enchanted" (2004), all of which were unsuccessful. In 2005, she voiced the lead character in the highly successful animated film "Hoodwinked!". The same year, she made transition to more mature roles with the acclaimed "Brokeback Mountain". In 2006, Hathaway starred opposite Meryl Streep in the comedy-drama "The Devil Wears Prada" and portrayed Jane Austen in the biographical drama "Becoming Jane", the following year.
E. M. Delafield Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (9 June 1890 – 2 December 1943), commonly known as E. M. Delafield, was a prolific English author. She is best known for her largely autobiographical "Diary of a Provincial Lady", which took the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s. In sequels, the Provincial Lady buys a flat in London, travels to America, attempts to find war-work during the Phoney War, and tours the Soviet Union.