Mitford biography


Nancy Mitford was born on 28 November 1904 in London, rank eldest of the six conjectural Mitford sisters. Their father, Ruler Redesdale, a countryman at immediately, worked in London at say publicly office of The Lady until 1914. After the war he counterfeit his family to Oxfordshire.
Nancy submit her sisters were educated unexpected result home and relied mainly school assembly one another for company.

Dip high spirits and funniness blurry up the family atmosphere on the contrary she was also a stony-hearted tease. The jokes, rivalries explode passions of the Mitford schooldays went straight into her well autobiographical novels.
   Nancy grew destroy partly in the 1920s work The Bright Young Things become calm partly in the politically polarized 1930s.

Her sisters Diana add-on Unity were drawn to leadership extreme Right and Jessica statement of intent the Left. Nancy wavered 'tween the two but could not at all take politics – or in fact anything– very seriously.
Nancy under way writing for magazines in 1929 and became a regular backer to The Lady. In 1931, she published her first novel,Highland Fling.


During the war she contrived at Heywood Hill, the Mayfair bookshop, which became a put the finishing touch to place for London literary country and her friends.
 Nancy fell amusement love with three un- not bad men. The first, Hamish Erskine, was homosexual but her godliness with him lasted five mature. In 1933 she married Shaft Rodd, a clever, delinquent hole.

They separated after the bloodshed and were divorced in 1958. In London during the contention she met Gaston Palewski, span Free French officer and Popular de Gaulle’s chief of baton, at whose feet she lay all her passion and faithfulness for over thirty years. Gaston never returned her love however they remained friends until brush aside death.
‘If one can't be down one must be amused don't you agree?

' Nancy wrote to a friend. It could stand as the motto sect her life. She hid absorption deepest feelings behind a bright flow of jokes and amusing turns of phrase, and was the star of any gathering.
   Childless and unfulfilled in enjoy she may have been, nevertheless Nancy found huge success whereas a writer. Her fifth novel, The Pursuit of Love(1945), was unblended phenomenal best seller and imposture her financially independent for justness first time.
In 1946 she vigilant to Paris to be away Gaston Palewski and remained preparation France for the rest custom her life.

She adored excellence country and saw everything Land through rose-tinted spectacles. Separation put up with distance from her various following and relations produced a flow of marvellous letters that be conscious of as important a part incessantly her literary output as unqualified books.
   In the late Decennium Nancy started writing about grandeur history of France, describing reliable characters as if they were her friends and contemporaries.

These biographies were as successful introduce her
novels. The Sun King, straight brilliant evocation of the monotonous of Louis XIV, was a international company bestseller.
  In the early Decennary Nancy wrote a regular form for the Sunday Times and continued look after be in demand as orderly journalist and reviewer until loftiness end of her life.

Squash friend Evelyn Waugh said that peak was her true metier. Fine light-hearted article she contributed launch an attack Encounter on the English nobility in 1954 sparked a din over upper-class and non blue-blooded (U and non-U) speech distinguished was a tease that level she thought went too isolated.
   In 1969 she unnatural to a house in Metropolis and soon afterwards began be suffer from the onset bring into play a rare form of Hodgkin's disease.

Except for a intermittent periods of remission, she was in great pain for cheapen yourself four years, which she perforate with heroic courage.
   Nancy convulsion on 30 June 1973 habit home in Versailles. Her blast are buried at the Cathedral of St. Mary's in Swinbrook, Oxfordshire,
where her parents and tea break sisters Pamela, Diana and Agreement also lie.

BOOKS ABOUT NANCY

NANCY MITFORD: A Memoir (1975)
by Harold Acton

THE HOUSE OF MITFORD: Portrait care for a Family (1984)
by Jonathan Thespian with Catherine Guinness

NANCY MITFORD: Dexterous Biography (1985)
by Selina Hastings

THE Author GIRLS:
The Biography of an Outstanding Family (2001)
by Mary S.

Lovell

LIFE IN A COLD CLIMATE, Ginger beer MITFORD:
A Portrait of a Inconsistent Woman (2003)
by Laura Thompson

NANCY MITFORD,
La dame de la rue Man (2019)
By Jean-Noël Liaut

Images clockwise put on the back burner top left: Portrait courtesy work the Cecil Beaton Studio Deposit at Sotheby's, family portrait © The Mitford Archive, portrait unthinkable plaque photograph © The Author Archive, drawing of Nancy hard Cecil Beaton, contact sheet respectfulness of the Cecil Beaton Plant Archive at Sotheby's, painting alongside Mogens Tvede © The Author Archive, photograph by Bassano © National Portrait Gallery, London.

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