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Nancy Mitford
Nancy Freeman-Mitford was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist who was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the London social scene in the inter-war period. She wrote several novels about upper-class life in England and France, and is considered a sharp and often provocative wit. She also has a reputation as a writer of popular historical biographies.
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culture · English novelist and biographer (1904–1973) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · biographer · journalist · also Nancy Mitford, Nancy Freeman-Mitford, Hon. Nancy Freeman-Mitford, Nancy Rodd, Nancy (Freeman) Mitford, Mitford
Born 28 November 1904 · Died 30 June 1973 · Q260026
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2026· 3 entries
“I thought in your soul you loved me & that in the end we should have children & look back on life together when we are old”
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Public attention spiked: 5,379 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.8× the usual 922, with 0 article edits.
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: Feathers, organza and unironed pyjamas: why fashion can’t get enough of the Mitford mythology
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The Guardian: ‘It feels radical about women’: Nancy Mitford hits BBC One’s Sunday night slot
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2011· 1 entry
Believes she had no reason to be: "There is a special kind of energy here, and its engine is the admirable and irresistible commitment of a writer who would rather die than be boring"
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1973· 2 entries
Died 1973-06-30.
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“I am so completely happy here ... I feel a totally different person.”
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1968· 1 entry
Began work on her final book, a biography of Frederick the Great
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1964· 1 entry
Began work on The Sun King, a biography of Louis XIV
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1957· 1 entry
It sold well, was taken seriously by the critics and was warmly praised by Mitford's friends
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1956· 1 entry
Hamish Hamilton reproduced the article in a short book, Noblesse Oblige
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1954· 2 entries
Alan Ross, a University of Birmingham professor of linguistics, devised the terms "U" and "Non-U" to differentiate the speech patterns of the social classes in England
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Mitford published a tongue-in-cheek article drawing on the concept of U and non-U English as a marker of social class, recently developed by the British linguist Alan S
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1951· 1 entry
With her third postwar novel, The Blessing, another semi-autobiographical romance this time set in Paris, in which an aristocratic young Englishwoman is married to a libidinous French marquis
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1950· 1 entry
Translated and adapted André Roussin's play La petite hutte ('The Little Hut'), in preparation for its successful West End début in August, The Times's critic noted the "habit of speech at once colloquial and unexpec
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1948· 1 entry
Mitford completed a new novel, a sequel to The Pursuit of Love that she called Love in a Cold Climate, with the same country house ambience as the earlier book and many of the same characters
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1944· 1 entry
With Waugh's encouragement, she began planning a new novel
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1939· 1 entry
Rodd left for southern France to work with the relief organisations assisting the thousands of Spanish refugees who had fled from General Francisco Franco's armies in the final stages of the civil war
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1936· 1 entry
Were detained under Defence Regulation 18B
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1935· 1 entry
It aroused little critical interest, but it seriously offended members of her own family, particularly Diana and Unity
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1934· 1 entry
Even attended one of Mosley's huge political rallies in Olympia, but her enthusiasm was short-lived and she soon became a vociferous opponent of the British Union of Fascists and of fascism generally
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1932· 2 entries
Diana deserted her husband to become the mistress of Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists, himself married with three children
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Her plight was overshadowed by a family scandal involving her younger sister Diana, who had married Bryan Guinness in 1928 and was the mother of two young sons
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1930· 1 entry
The Lady engaged her to write a regular column
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1928· 1 entry
And became unofficially engaged, despite his homosexuality, of which Nancy may not have been aware
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1921· 1 entry
After years of pleading for proper schooling, Nancy was allowed a year's boarding at Hatherop Castle, an informal private establishment for young ladies of good family
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1919· 1 entry
Together with much of its contents—including, to Nancy's great dismay, a large part of its library
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1908· 1 entry
Married the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Nellie, who married Bertram Romilly
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1904· 1 entry
Born 1904-11-28.
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1903· 1 entry
Became engaged to Sydney Bowles, the elder daughter of Thomas Gibson Bowles, known as "Tap", a journalist, editor and magazine proprietor whose publications included Vanity Fair and The Lady
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1902· 1 entry
Was raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Redesdale, a re-creation of a title that had previously been held in the family but had lapsed in 1886
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1886· 1 entry
When, after the death of a cousin, he inherited a considerable fortune
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1874· 1 entry
Married Clementina, the second daughter of David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie, a union that linked the Mitfords to some of Britain's most prominent aristocratic families
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1837· 2 entries
And known as "Bertie", was a diplomat and traveller who held minor office in Disraeli's second ministry, from 1874 to 1880
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His great-grandson (Algernon) Bertram Mitford, born in 1837 and known as "Bertie", was a diplomat and traveller who held minor office in Disraeli's second ministry, from 1874 to 1880.
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