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 | | Diana Mosley's detachment, and the glaring degree to which her biographer becomes complicit in it, resonate throughout this morally tone-deaf book. |
 | | She was part of the much-documented Mitford brood of beautiful, headstrong sisters (Dina, Dana, Bodley, Honks, Cord and Nard were all childhood nicknames for Diana -- and that was just within the family) and thus came equipped with attributes that make her a hagiographer's dream. |
 | | Diana was a cousin of Winston Churchill's, a darling of Evelyn Waugh's (who dedicated "Vile Bodies" to the Guinnesses) and an unlikely friend of Lytton Strachey's and Dora Carrington's, even if she found Bloomsbury tastes "dreary" and "middle-class"; Diana's own aesthetic ran toward pink, blue and gold luxe. |
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