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Nancy Mitford’s life was a soap opera, a comedy of manners, and a romantic tragedy. She and her five sisters were the scandalous “it” girls of London society in the turbulent 1920s and ’30s, The Mad, Mad Mitfords” as a 1938 newspaper headline called them, famous for being infamous.
Nancy Freeman-Mitford (ur. 28 listopada 1904 w Londynie, zm. 30 czerwca 1973 w Wersalu) – angielska powieściopisarka i biografka. Pochodziła z rodziny arystokratycznej. Najbardziej znana z cyklu powieści o życiu wyższych sfer w Anglii i Francji. Napisała także cztery dobrze przyjęte popularne biografie ( Ludwika XIV, Madame Pompadour ...
22 de abr. de 2022 · Nancy Mitford truly excelled in pointing out hypocrisy on all sides, including the more liberal members of her society circles. In “Christmas Pudding,”, one of her earlier works, she delivers an absolutely side-splitting send-up of British countryside aristocracy in all its absurdly snobbish trappings.
16 de nov. de 2022 · Nancy Mitford (November 28, 1904 – June 30, 1973) was a British novelist, journalist, and biographer. She was best known for her novels depicting upper-class life in England, often with satirical and provocative humor. In addition to her two most successful novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, she also wrote several other ...
Nancy Freeman-Mitford (Londra, 28 novembre 1904 – Versailles, 30 giugno 1973) è stata una scrittrice e biografa britannica. È famosa per i suoi romanzi sulla vita dell'alta società in Gran Bretagna e in Francia , in particolare quelli pubblicati dopo il 1945 , e per le biografie di Luigi XIV di Francia , Madame de Pompadour , Voltaire e Federico II di Prussia .
Nancy Mitford's most famous novel, The Pursuit of Love satirizes British aristocracy in the twenties and thirties through the amorous adventures of the Radletts, an exuberantly unconventional family closely modelled on Mitford's own. The Radletts of Alconleigh occupy the heights of genteel eccentricity, from terrifying Lord Alconleigh (who ...
THE PENGUIN COMPLETE NOVELS OF NANCY MITFORD (2011) NON FICTION. THE LADIES OF ALDERLEY (1938), Letters edited by Nancy Mitford THE STANLEYS OF ALDERLEY (1939), Letters edited by Nancy Mitford MADAME DE POMPADOUR (1954) VOLTAIRE IN LOVE (1957) THE SUN KING (1966) FREDERICK THE GREAT (1970) JOURNALISM. NOBLESSE OBLIGE (1956),
