Nancy Mitford: a biography

by Hastings, Selina

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Title Statements

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

Summary

Nancy Mitford's life was as glamorous and as dramatic as her most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate. 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.
Edition:1st Vintage books ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Vintage Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780307949479, 0307949478, 1299097561, 9781299097568, 9781448112418, 1448112419
oclc:ocn803974263
LC Classification:PR6025.I88
Dewey Decimal:823/.914

Subjects

20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Biographies BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary Diaries, letters & journals LITERARY CRITICISM -- European Mitford, Nancy Novelists, English Novelists, English -- Biography. -- 20t… Romanciers anglais -- Biographies. -- 2… Social & Cultural History Social groups