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	Nancy Mitford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Honourable Nancy Freeman-Mitford, CBE (28 November 1904–30 June 1973), novelist and biographer, was born in London, the eldest daughter of the 2nd Baron Redesdale.
		Nancy Mitford died of cancer on 30 June 1973 in Versailles.
		Nancy Mitford was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nancy_Mitford (282 words)

	The Mitfords
		Nancy Mitford was the eldest of the seven children of David Mitford, second Baron Redesdale, and his wife, Sydney Bowles.
		At the age of five Nancy was sent briefly to the Francis Holland School, conveniently situated at the other end of Graham Street, but when later that year the family moved to a larger house in Victoria Road, Kensington, her education was continued by governesses in the schoolroom.
		David Mitford, always known to his children as "Farve", inherited the title in 1916, and moved from London, which he hated, to his family house, Batsford Park in Gloucestershire, then to the smaller Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire, before finally settling in a house largely designed by himself in the nearby village of Swinbrook.
	www.bbc.co.uk /education/bookcase/mitford/nancy/nancy.shtml (456 words)

	Nancy Mitford -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Nancy Mitford was one of six daughters (and one son) of the 2nd Baron Redesdale; the family name was actually Freeman-Mitford.
		Nancy Walker was a feisty, diminutive redhead who used her gift for wisecracking to create such unforgettable television characters as manipulative mom Ida Morgenstern on Rhoda, Mildred the sardonic housekeeper on McMillan and Wife, and Rosie the brassy waitress in a series of paper towel commercials from 1970 to 1990.
		Mitford, known as "Decca" to friends and family, was one of seven children in an eccentric...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9053033 (621 words)

	U and non-U English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The English author Nancy Mitford was alerted and immediately took up the usage in an essay, “The English Aristocracy” that was published by Stephen Spender in his magazine Encounter in 1954.
		Mitford provided a glossary of terms used by the upper-classes, some of which are in the table at right, unleashing an anxious national debate about English class-consciousness and snobbery, which involved a good deal of humourless soul-searching that itself provided fuel for the fires.
		His article covered differences of pronunciation and writing style, but it was his attention to differences of vocabulary that received the most attention.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U_and_non-U_English (467 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Mitford, Nancy
		Nancy Mitford (1904-1973), English writer, known primarily for her comedies of manners.
		Deborah Mitford, the youngest sister, married the son of a duke and became the duchess of Devonshire.
		Nancy’s political sympathies were closer to Jessica’s than to any of her other sisters.
	encarta.msn.com /text_701702267__1/Mitford_Nancy.html (578 words)

	French Culture Books Nancy Mitford: Madame de Pompadour
		Nancy Mitford herself was famous for her novels (The Pursuit of Love, The Blessing, and Don't Tell Alfred), for her forays into social science (a critical study of the English aristocracy), and for her biographies of famous figures from French history (Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire in Love, and The Sun King).
		Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was the eldest of the "Mitford girls," the sisters who captured the attention of the English public and press with their literary talents and unpopular politics.
		It is the great merit of this biography by novelist Nancy Mitford that it excels in depicting both...
	www.frenchculture.org /books/release/history/mitfordpompadour.html (266 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books LRB essay Girls in pearls: the legendary Mitfords
		The infamous Mitfords - Diana the fascist, Decca the communist, Unity the Nazi, Debo the duchess, Nancy the novelist and rural Pam - remain objects of fascination for biographers and historians.
		That Nancy and her sisters never laughed at jokes, but rather "screamed", "howled" or "shrieked", as if in pain, is not merely to do with the argot of the time: the Mitfords bared their teeth when they laughed, and bit first.
		Fans of Nancy Mitford have her novels, her journalism, her delightfully spiteful biographies and two vast volumes of correspondence to sustain them, the latter brilliantly annotated by Charlotte Mosley; as well as Selina Hastings's clear-sighted, of-the-milieu biography.
	books.guardian.co.uk /lrb/articles/0,6109,623207,00.html (2298 words)

	The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh
		Nancy spent the war in London, at first in the small house that she and Peter rented in Blomfield Road, Maida Vale, and later, when bombs began falling on Paddington Station, at the mews of her parents' house in Rutland Gate, Kensington.
		His effect on Nancy was similar to that which Fabrice, the short, stocky, very dark Frenchman in The Pursuit of Love, has on the heroine of the novel: `Linda was feeling, what she had never so far felt for any man, an overwhelming physical attraction.
		Nancy found work as a volunteer at St Mary's First Aid Post, she looked after families of evacuees and helped in a canteen for French soldiers in west London.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/m/mosley-letters.html (4970 words)

	Powell's Books - The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate (Vintage International) by Nancy Mitford
		Nancy Mitford's most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, satirize British aristocracy in the twenties and thirties through the amorous adventures of the Radletts, an exuberantly unconventional family closely modelled on Mitford's own.
		Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest of Lord Redesdale's seven children.
		Powell's Books - The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate (Vintage International) by Nancy Mitford
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0375718990 (356 words)

	Nancy Mitford - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest child of the second Baron Redesdale.
		Nancy Mitford was awarded the CBE in 1972.
		She followed the success of The Pursuit of Love with Love in a Cold Climate (1949) The Blessing (1951) and Don't Tell Alfred (1960), published together in Penguin as The Nancy Mitford Omnibus.
	penguinputnam.com /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000022431,00.html?sym=BIO (259 words)

	Mitford, Nancy on Encyclopedia.com
		Newly-declassified MI5 files have revealed that Nancy Mitford informed the security services that her sister Diana, wife of Fascist leader Oswald Mosley, was 'dangerous' and 'sincerely desires the downfall of England...
		Nothing was dull with Nancy around Nancy Mitford's `Love in a Cold Climate' starts on BBC1 tonight.
		Mitford was born into the British aristocracy, which she satirizes in her novels, notably In Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/mitfordn1.asp (674 words)

	The Mitfords Family
		When the Mitford children sat in the Hons Cupboard discussing life and love, they could never have anticipated how their passions were to lead them all in such different directions.
		Nancy eventually divorced Peter when she met Colonel Palewski and knew in an instant that she should follow him to Paris.
		Pamela, the quietest of the Mitford children, met and married Derek Jackson.
	www.bbc.co.uk /education/bookcase/mitford/nancy/na_fam3.shtml (501 words)

	BBC NEWS Magazine Nancy Mitford spied on sisters
		In a file named "Persons considered dangerous by Mrs Peter Rodd" (Nancy Mitford's married name), Diana is said to have expressed "the hope, in front of her governess and eldest son, that the British army would be successfully cut off and destroyed at Dunquerque".
		Nancy Mitford, whose books include Noblesse Oblige, about the behaviour of the British aristocracy, also informed on her sister Pamela.
		Unity was also close to Hitler, but Mitford said she had "recanted on the subject of anti-semitism", and that "the motives for her suicide was in a sense patriotic, namely despair at the declaration of war between Germany and England, which Hitler personally promised her would never take place".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/3263733.stm (530 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre Learning Resources Book Club Love in a Cold Climate
		Nancy Mitford closely modeled the characters in the Radlett family on her parents and sisters.
		Based on the Nancy Mitford novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, this is a high-spirited and classic 1930s story which captures the coming of age of three young women.
		Mitford's novels are classified as satire, a literary style that uses humor, exaggeration and irony to expose and criticize human failures or vices.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/learningresources/book_climate.html (615 words)

	Chicklit Forums: The Mitford Industry
		Nancy was the professional, and most prolific writer in the family, but if you start with any of her works you will enjoy learning more about her parents, sisters and friends.
		Nancy may have been occasionally pink, but she wrote to her sisters reassuring them that the Nazi characters in Wigs on Green are more sympathetic than not.
		Nancy knew his first wife best (her name was also Evelyn and was referred to as "She-Evelyn"); when the Waughs divorced, Nancy became one of He-Evelyn's best friends.
	www.chicklit.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=000528;p=0 (5052 words)

	Class Pages
		Nancy Mitford was a natural writer with witty and exceptional skills as a raconteur but also with a firm aristocratic perspective.
		Among her five sisters Nancy was not the only one to become famous, but unlike them, she was the literary one and tried to stay out of politics.
		When Nancy was twelve, the family moved from London to the family estate in Gloucestershire.
	rcswww.urz.tu-dresden.de /~lehre1/ss2002/class/mitford.htm (657 words)

	Jessica Mitford
		At the age of fourteen she was converted to pacifism and later, like her sister, Nancy Mitford, became a socialist.
		, Nancy Mitford and Unity Mitford, she was educated at home by her mother.
		Mitford's parents held right-wing political views and supported the British Union of Fascists and in 1936 their daughter, Diana Mitford, married its leader, Oswald Mosley.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SPmitford.htm (3283 words)

	Alan Bates Television Archive: "Love in a Cold Climate"
		THE home of Nancy Mitford is to be returned to its former glory for a BBC dramatisation of two of her novels.
		Indeed, this is part of Nancy's extraordinary gift as a novelist, the brilliant sleight of hand with which she creates her world and the immediacy with which she establishes a rapport with her reader.
		Nancy also lived abroad for much of her life, moving to Paris, where she died of cancer in 1973, aged 69.
	alanbates.com /abarchive/tv/mitford.html (1061 words)

	Bibliofemme: The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
		Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Decca and Debo Mitford came of age in England during the decadent age of Evelyn Waugh's Bright Young Things (several of his books were dedicated to Diana and her then husband Bryan Guinness) and were known as the "mad, mad Mitfords".
		Nancy Mitford was undoubtedly the twentieth century heir to Jane Austen's crown - her Fanny also bears similarities to Austen's Mansfield Park narrator.
		Impetuous cousin Linda (based on Nancy herself and several of her sisters) and her pursuit of love is at the centre of the story - to the extent that Fanny's own life is nothing but a side-show to the main event.
	www.bibliofemme.com /reviews/pursuit.shtml (1417 words)

	National Review: Nancy Mitford: a biography. - book reviews
		One of the major joys of Selina Hastings's book is that she makes Nancy Mitford's life as entertaining as her novels.
		I also thought of calling it "a superfluous biography,' because anyone who has read The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford's two most famous (and highly autobiographical) novels, already knows about her extraordinary family and her unsatisfactory love affairs.
		Nancy, thwarted in love, denied children, and finally afflicted with a rare form of Hodgkin's disease, the pain of which "is known to be one of the two most severe a human being can suffer,' never let herself wallow in degrading self-pity.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v39/ai_4722839 (677 words)

	ttgapers.com store - Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford - Nancy Mitford - Product Details
		Indeed, Nancy Mitford, her family and her celebrated friend, Evelyn Waugh, were represented often in the gossip columns of their lifetimes.
		Nancy Mitford: A memoir (A Cass Canfield book)
		Nancy was far more a representative of the old, but capable of making ideological decisions that her sisters and parents despaired of.
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-0395570417.html (960 words)

	Shrieks
		Nancy Mitford is terrifically knowing and sophisticated, but she writes with a detectable nostalgia for the gender inequalities that made Mme du Châtelet look so raffinée.
		It is in from Nancy Mitford's description of her grasping regard for Saint-Lambert, rather than from any incident involving Voltaire, that we get the clearest picture of the marquise's character.
		By that time, Jessica Mitford had published her expose, 'The American Way of Death,' but I was not particularly interested in current affairs in those days, nor in muckraking, and so saved a treasure for my middle age (I've got a copy of the revised, posthumous edition in my legenda).
	www.portifex.com /ReadingMatter/shrieks.htm (7195 words)

	tvdvdreviews.com -- Love in a Cold Climate Press Release
		Nancy Mitford was the eldest of six aristocratic children born to Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, the second Baron Redesdale.
		Based on Nancy Mitford’s novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate—part thinly-veiled memoir, part biting satire, and part fascinating window on a vanished way of life—this witty drama from the BBC follows the romantic adventures of three young aristocrats between the wars.
		She was born in 1904 and grew up on the family estate in the Cotswolds, chiefly educated by her mother.
	www.tvdvdreviews.com /press/lovecoldpress.html (322 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Nancy
		Nancy, city in north-east France, capital of the Meurthe-et-Moselle Department, on the Meurthe River in Lorraine.
		Lopez, Nancy (1957- ), American golfer, a four-time winner of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) player of the year award (1978, 1979,...
		Daughter of the 2nd Baron Redesdale, Mitford moved in London society circles.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Nancy.html (75 words)

	Limited Edition Online - The Magazine for Oxfordshire
		Nancy was born in London on November 28, 1904, the eldest child of Sydney Bowles and David Freeman Mitford.
		Nancy exploited these unsavoury traits to the full, but with the wry humour and lightness of touch that were her hallmarks.
		David Mitford was a man of strong opinions — which included a deep distrust of foreigners, the belief that education for women was unnecessary, and an obsessive dislike of bad manners.
	www.thisislimitededition.co.uk /item.asp?category=People&ID=573 (1032 words)

	Intelligence: Telegraph News Nancy Mitford warned MI5 of treason by sister Diana
		Nancy Mitford provided the information MI5 needed to keep her sister Diana Mosley in jail, warning that she was "far cleverer and more dangerous than her husband", according to MI5 files released to the National Archives today.
		Nancy, the eldest of the six Mitford sisters, told MI5 that Diana "sincerely desires the downfall of England and democracy generally and should not be released".
		Nancy Mitford had fallen out with Diana and Unity after lampooning their adulation of Hitler in a satirical novel Wigs on the Green.
	www.ladlass.com /intel/archives/001052.html (860 words)

	The Bookshop At 10 Curzon Street: Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952—73
		Nancy Mitford was one of the world's great letter writers.
		This volume, composed of letters between Mitford and the man with whom she shared ownership of a London bookstore, adds a different dimension to Mitford's communications in that they show her as a businesswoman and also as a researcher for her biographical works on Madame de Pompadour, Louis XIV, Voltaire, and Frederick the Great.
		It is odd that in all her biographies and the biographies of the Mitford girls that thisis the first time I have taken in this fact.
	www.literacyconnections.com /0_0711224528.html (374 words)

	Radical Society: Mitford sisters' world, The
		"Oh, why do all my daughters fall for dictators?" Lady Redesdale exclaimed to her eldest daughter, Nancy Mitford, when she confessed her affair with Colonel Gaston Palewski, a French diplomat in De Gaulle's inner circle.
		Nancy was comfortable in the public eye-her younger sisters much less so-and Decca spent much of her life avoiding reporters until she became one, but she chose to be an investigative journalist rather than a society columnist like Nancy.
		Nancy was a novelist and historian of some note, and a stalwart of the smart set known as the Bright Young Things.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4053/is_200204/ai_n9060749 (1225 words)

	WWGPro.DE Buchtipps: The Sun King (Nancy Mitford)
		Nancy Mitford came to me by way of this book and, ignorant of the incredible talents that lie with her, her sisters and the aristocratic family into which she was born.
		Nancy Mitford is best known as an author of witty, elegant novels like The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate.
		Nancy Mitford with "The Sun King" stands among rarified company in such an achievement.
	www.wwgpro.de /books-isbn-0140239677.html (669 words)

	Nancy Mitford Bibliography at Bookseller World
		Nancy Mitford was born in London on 28th November 1904 to a wealthy aristocratic background.
		An education in Europe eventually led to the decision to move to Paris where she remained for the rest of her life.
		If you are looking to buy or sell books then our rare book dealers section may be of some assistance.
	www.booksellerworld.com /nancy-mitford.htm (107 words)

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