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2 giorni fa · 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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3 giorni fa · Il fiuto da detective però, non l’ha mai abbandonata, proprio come l’affetto che la lega alla famiglia. È per questo che quando Nancy, la maggiore delle Mitford, la invita a trascorrere il Natale del 1941 a Chatsworth House, la maestosa dimora dei duchi di Devonshire con muri del colore del burro fuso, duecento stanze e pareti ricoperte da enormi affreschi, Louisa accetta.
15 ore fa · ‘I wondered for a time who this brilliant “Mrs Bedford” could be,’ wrote Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford on reading Sybille Bedford’s first novel, A Legacy . T...
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1 giorno fa · From Nancy Mitford (1985), by Selina Hastings: “…At this moment there fell into her lap the subject for an article which, starting off as just another Mitford tease, ended in winning her worldwide notoriety and by giving a new phrase to the language.
5 giorni fa · Among the more famous aristocracy to live in the area were Lord Redesdale's family (the Mitfords), including the writer Nancy Mitford and her sisters and brother, who as children lived at Asthall Manor from 1919 to 1926.
15 ore fa · Minter is an Austrian Jew whose family came to Britain before the war, but his parents were interned as enemy aliens and died in custody. Interviewing the suspects involves an encounter with the local aristocrat Sir Alex Grainger, who delivers a Statement of Authenticity when it comes to ‘belonging’.
2 giorni fa · Take the BBC’s The Pursuit of Love, for example, which felt perfectly apace with Nancy Mitford’s sharp, witty novel. Or, to borrow an example from the world of film, Armando Iannucci’s wonderful The Personal History of David Copperfield , which effervesced with Dickensian spirit (and featured a diverse cast, with Dev Patel in the lead role).
