Happy Birthday Nancy Mitford

Happy Birthday Nancy!!!!!

If you are unfamiliar with her writing, try her 2 semi-autobiographical novels, "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate". Perfect holiday escape literature.



If you've a fan of 20th century Brit Lit on your holiday shopping list, you could do far worse than the Penguin re-release boxed set "Love From Nancy" which includes "Love in a Cold Climate", "The Pursuit of Love", "Don't Tell Alfred", "The Blessings" and "Wigs on the Green"



Francophiles on your gift list will appreciate receiving a copy of her biographies of Voltaire, The Sun King and Madame De Pompadour.

Give her a try. She knew everyone worth knowing,was funny, sarcastic, a great tease and a wonderful writer. All may be found at her war time employer, Heywood Hill

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Nancy and The Duchess

Once you have completed Mad World, and your taste for between the wars English Lit has re-awoken, you find that a natural follow up to Waugh was his buddy and frequent correspondent Nancy Mitford.

Nancy is much in the news as Penguin has re released Love in a Cold Climate, The Pursuit of Love, Don't tell Alfred, The Blessing and Wigs on the Green. Love in a Cold Climate is one of the funniest books ever written in English.

PBS Masterpiece Theatre did a rendition of Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love in 2002. If you haven't seen it, search. The books are part autobiography, and its a wonder any of the Mitford sisters were sane.

Her former employer Heywood Hill LTD is having an exhibition of Nancy memorabilia and packaging a boxed set of all 5 of the Penguin reprints, for release in September, and ...

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Love from Nancy

This Summer we are celebrating the life and work of our most famous alumna, Nancy Mitford, in a new exhibition: Love from Nancy. Running from Monday 28th June to Friday 10th September the exhibition includes many items from the Mitford Archive at Chatsworth, set up by the author's sister Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire."

It's a glorious summer for the Mitford Girls.

Nancy's sister Debo, the recently widowed, dowager Duchess of Devonshire autobiography, "Wait for Me" will soon be published as well. She, like most of her sibs is a talented writer. I enjoyed Counting Your Chickens, about life on the Devonshire estate which was published several years ago.

Read on!

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