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Hace 5 días · They forgot a letter Nancy Mitford wrote to them in 1972. They’d found her out in France, where she lived, and enquired whether there was a basement here. She wrote back saying, “If only there...
Hace 3 días · Nancy Mitford ( 1904-1973 ), la maggiore delle sei bellissime ed eccentriche figlie del barone Redesdale, scrive un romanzo che celebra l’ amore più importante della sua vita ( Gaston Palewski, comandante delle forze armate della Francia libera ) sotto le spoglie del seduttore Fabrice.
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Hace 3 días · Some people believe that being a miffy or milk firster is a mark of aristocracy because the cups of aristocrats were so delicate that a sudden influx of boiling water would crack the fine porcelain. Author and aristocrat Nancy Mitford, who in 1956 published the definitive piece on how to self-define as upper or lower-class (U or non-U), disagreed.
Hace 2 días · The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford – Grace (Arts Editor) Hilarious. Eccentric. Escapist. This brilliantly colourful, bitingly witty and painfully tender tale follows the dramatic turns of fate in the wild, frivolous life of Linda Radlett and her bizarre aristocratic family through her cousin’s fond observations.
- Tuesday 7 May 2024 | Cambridge, UK
Hace 3 días · Nancy Mitford’s delightfully candid biography recreates the spirit of 18th-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery. We learn that the Queen was a “bore,” the Dauphin a “prig,” and see France increasingly overcome with class conflict.
Hace 5 días · Taylor Swift’s newest album, The Tortured Poets Department, is riddled with sensational literary references to some of history's greatest poets, playwrights, and novelists. While many speculate about the inspiration for the album’s title, we think including so many famous references captures the spirit of “the tortured poets department.” It contains words and ideas from history’s ...
Hace 2 días · Cold-blooded characters that left me cold or I am not seeking escape from reality
