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30 de abr. de 2024 · 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. The Pursuit of Love. Mirrorpix/Getty Images.
7 de mai. de 2024 · Writer Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) took inspiration for her work from her renowned upper-class background. From the BBC Archive. Originally broadcast 14 July 1958. 7 May. In this extract from a...
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.
Há 3 dias · Nicholas Mosley (1923–2017) (later 3rd Baron Ravensdale a title inherited from his mother's family), and 7th Baronet of Ancoats; he was a novelist and wrote a biography of his father and edited his memoirs for publication.
9 de mai. de 2024 · Simon Raven was an English novelist, playwright, and journalist, known particularly for his satiric portrayal of the hedonism of the mid-20th-century upper classes of English society. Raven was educated at Charterhouse, Surrey, and King’s College, Cambridge.
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15 de mai. de 2024 · Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor (born May 19, 1879, Danville, Virginia, U.S.—died May 2, 1964, Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire, England) was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons, known in public and private life for her great energy and wit.
Há 3 dias · Nancy Mitford ( 1904-1973 ), la maggiore delle sei bellissime ed eccentriche figlie del barone Redesdale, scrive un romanzo che celebra l’ amore più importante della sua vita ( Gaston Palewski, comandante delle forze armate della Francia libera ) sotto le spoglie del seduttore Fabrice.
