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Há 2 dias · The title, it’s said, refers to Idina’s nickname as she ran from one marriage to the next. Swift would not be the first: Idina inspired the multi-hyphenate, multi-husbanded mother of Fanny Logan in Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, and her great-granddaughter, Frances Osborne, named Lady Sackville’s biography The Bolter.
Há 2 dias · Lyndsy Spence became obsessed with the aristocracy as a teenager. Now a historian and Mitford sister expert, she sits down with Matt and Alice to dissect the six extraordinary and eccentric siblings. From Diana, the beautiful child who dreamed of being kidnapped, to Nancy, who once hoped her parents had been onboard the Titanic - Lyndsy explains the sisters’ shared love of shocking others ...
Há 3 dias · If you still find it hard not to stare at yourself when you're on a video call, then you are not alone. Nor should you worry that this betrays a distressing level of narcissism. The author Nancy Mitford once observed that people who look at themselves in every reflection often do so not from vanity but a feeling that all is not quite as it should be. Video calls, which subtly distort our faces ...
Há 4 dias · The World Before Domesday: The English Aristocracy 900–1066. London, Continuum, 2008, ISBN: 9781847252395; 256pp.; Price: £65.00. This is an accessible and engaging book about the ranks, obligations, and image of the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy, written by one of the leading historians of the period. Ann Williams is the author of The English and ...
Há 6 dias · Taylor Swifts Inspiration: Diese literarischen Referenzen verstecken sich im neuen Album. 1. Patti Smith und Dylan Thomas. Lieder: "The Tortured Poets Department" und "loml". Referenz: "You're not ...
Há 3 dias · The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford – Grace (Arts Editor) Hilarious. Eccentric. Escapist. This brilliantly colourful, bitingly witty and painfully tender tale follows the dramatic turns of fate in the wild, frivolous life of Linda Radlett and her bizarre aristocratic family through her cousin’s fond observations.
Há 3 dias · Between the World Wars, the six Mitford sisters ruled the political, literary, and social scenes of the English world. For this reason, they’ve faced scandal plenty of times before, but when Diana divorces her husband to marry a fascist leader and Unity follows suit, inciting rumors that she’s become Hitler’s own mistress, the family doesn’t know what to do.
