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20 de mai. de 2024 · The Pursuit of Love, novel written by Nancy Mitford, published in 1945. The Pursuit of Love and its sequel, Love in a Cold Climate, are thinly disguised autobiographical novels based on Mitford’s life and her outlandish upper-class family
4 de mai. de 2024 · Set in inter-war England, Mitford wittily and unflinchingly portrays the bizarre upbringing of the children of the Radlett family and how a lack of adequate education (formal or otherwise) for the daughters of the house leads to an unhealthy and disastrous obsession with the pursuit of love and romance.
11 de mai. de 2024 · Consider the compelling cataclysm of the Le Pens, the Gallagher brothers, the Hitchens brothers, following in the footsteps of the Mitford sisters in being politically as well as personally...
- Ella Risbridger
2 de mai. de 2024 · The New York Times bestselling author of The Six turns her eye to the iconic and enigmatic Nancy Mitford. Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, “very complex.”
Há 2 dias · Look at the fix that Nancy Mitford got herself into when she dedicated The Pursuit of Love to her adored Gaston Palewski, the ‘Colonel’, the ally of de Gaulle whom she had met in London in 1942 and who, in the novel, is reimagined as the Duc de Sauveterre (the idealizing of the affair does not prevent it from being one of the most beautifully-realized love stories in fiction).
Há 3 dias · Some people believe that being a miffy or milk firster is a mark of aristocracy because the cups of aristocrats were so delicate that a sudden influx of boiling water would crack the fine porcelain. Author and aristocrat Nancy Mitford, who in 1956 published the definitive piece on how to self-define as upper or lower-class (U or non-U), disagreed.
Há 5 dias · They forgot a letter Nancy Mitford wrote to them in 1972. They’d found her out in France, where she lived, and enquired whether there was a basement here. She wrote back saying, “If only there...
