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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Mitford, Nancy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Until the television adaptation of Love in a Cold Climate in February 2001 Nancy Mitford was best known for her ideas about 'u' (upper-class) and non-'u'(non-upper-class) language derived from the work of the philologist, Alan Ross, and first publicised in her essay, The English Aristocracy published by Stephen Spender in Encounter in 1954. |
 | | Her most famous novel, The Pursuit of Love, was published in December 1945, and was followed by its sequel, Love in a Cold Climate, in July 1949. |
 | | Her ill-starred love affair with a hero of the French Resistance, Gaston Palwski, a close confidante of General de Gaul, provided her with the template for the relationship between Linda and Fabrice in Love in a Cold Climate (1949). |
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