Nancy Mitford

Author: Selina Hastings
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Biography: General, Diaries, Letters & Journals, Memoirs, Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, Social & Cultural History, Social Classes
Book Format: Paperback

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 inveterate writer of letters, she wrote almost daily to, among others, Evelyn Waugh, Harold Action, John Betjeman, Lord Berners, Lady Seafield and, of course, her sisters. This correspondence lies at the base of this biography, written with the full cooperation of Nancy Mitford's family and friends. 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.

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.

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SKU BK-9780099429555
Barcode # 9780099429555
Brand Vintage
Artist / Author Selina Hastings
Shipping Weight 0.2400kg
Shipping Width 0.130m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 19.800m
Assembled Height 1.800m
Assembled Width 12.900m
Type Paperback

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