Nancy Mitford

Nancy Mitford: a biography

by Hastings, Selina

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Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease, and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her comic novels, based in part on her eccentric family, she became a huge bestseller and household name. An inspired letter writer, she wrote almost daily to a wide variety of correspondents, among them Evelyn Waugh, Harold Acton, John Betjeman, and, of course, her famous sisters. Noted biographer Selina Hastings captures the gaiety and frivolity as…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Nancy Mitford : a biography / Selina Hastings.

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Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease, and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her comic novels, based in part on her eccentric family, she became a huge bestseller and household name. An inspired letter writer, she wrote almost daily to a wide variety of correspondents, among them Evelyn Waugh, Harold Acton, John Betjeman, and, of course, her famous sisters. Noted biographer Selina Hastings captures the gaiety and frivolity as well as the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford's life: her failed marriage and her long, unfulfilled relationship with her dashing but unfaithful French lover contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success. Hastings has written a biography that is as superbly entertaining and clear-eyed as the unforgettable novels that are its subject's lasting claim to fame.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2012, ©1985.
  • Edition:1st Vintage books ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Vintage
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2012, ©1985.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xii, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:030794946X, 9780307949462
  • oclc:ocn784035112
  • LC Classification:PR6025.I88
  • Dewey Decimal:928.2

Subjects

Biographies Mitford, Nancy Novelists, English Novelists, English -- Biography. -- 20t… Romanciers anglais -- Biographies. -- 2…

Writers

Hastings, Selina

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