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5 giorni fa · I was reminded of another favorite author of mine, Nancy Mitford who in The Pursuit of Love, like yourself, also wrote about female characters navigating societal expectations on domesticity, marriage, and motherhood.
2 giorni fa · From 1919 to 1926 Asthall Manor was the home of Lord and Lady Redesdale and their seven children, including Diana, Unity, and Jessica Mitford, who were later active in politics; Nancy Mitford the writer, whose local experience was reflected in The Pursuit of Love (1945); and Deborah, future duchess of Devonshire.
2 giorni fa · Distinguishing class like this in Britain both offends us and fascinates us. In the 1950s, when aristocrat Nancy Mitford wrote all the trappings of what was ‘U’ and ‘Non-U’ (Upper Class and Not Upper Class), she was reviled by her friends for making explicit what had always been unwritten code.
2 giorni fa · The Blessing is one of Nancy Mitford's most personal books, a wickedly funny story that asks whether love can survive the clash of cultures. When Grace Allingham, a na ve young Englishwoman, goes to live in France with her dashingly aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard, she finds herself overwhelmed by the bewilderingly foreign cuisine and the shockingly decadent manners and mores of the French.
2 giorni fa · Nancy Mitford would have said our cats were decidedly Non-U. U stood for upper class; non-U meant you were middle-class, with pretensions towards being U, and hence common. Spitting your tucker on the floor might be the very definition of common.
3 giorni fa · The Pursuit of Lovewas written by Nancy Mitford and published by The Reprint Society in 1947. 222 pages. Images of the spine, t he front cover and the back cover have been provided to show, yet further, the condition of this publication.
3 giorni fa · The phrase “not one’s cup of tea” comes from British culture, dating back to the early 1900s. Its positive version appeared even earlier. At first, it meant having a personal choice, like preferring a type of tea. Literature by William de Morgan in 1907 and Nancy Mitford in 1932 helped make the phrase well-known, showing how expressions ...
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