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Nancy Mitford Selina Hastings

Nancy Mitford By Selina Hastings

Nancy Mitford by Selina Hastings


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Summary

Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. Selina Hastings has written a biography that is superbly entertaining and clear-eyed, of a life that Diana Mosley spoke of as being 'so sad one can hardly bear to contemplate it'.

Nancy Mitford Summary

Nancy Mitford by Selina Hastings

Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her novels, above all The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing, she became a huge bestseller and a household name. An inspired letter writer, she wrote almost daily to a wide variety of correspondents, among them Evelyn Waugh, Harold Action, John Betjeman, Lord Berners, Lady Seafield, and, of course, her sisters. Selina Hastings captures equally the gaiety and frivolity and the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford's life: her failed marriage and her long, unfulfilled relationship with 'the Colonel' contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success. Selina Hastings has written a biography that is superbly entertaining and clear-eyed, of a life that Diana Mosley spoke of as being 'so sad one can hardly bear to contemplate it'.

Nancy Mitford Reviews

"Selina Hastings has written a book which Nancy Mitford would have been proud to write herself" -- A.N. Wilson
"Very perceptive and often very funny" -- Peter Ackroyd
"Absorbing and vividly written" * Catholic Herald *
"An impeccable biography" * Literary Review *

About Selina Hastings

Selina Hastings is a writer and literary journalist. She worked for fourteen years on the Daily Telegraph and subsequently as literary editor of Harper's & Queen. She has also written Evelyn Waugh: A Biography.

Additional information

GOR001552139
9780099429555
0099429551
Nancy Mitford by Selina Hastings
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2002-04-04
304
N/A
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