News

The eldest of the Mitford sisters, Nancy Mitford turned the eccentricities of her family and social class into sharp, ...
Diana Mitford was the most dazzling and infamous of the Mitford sisters, an aristocratic British family who became ...
From Diana Mosley’s sharp reflections on fame to Stephen Fry’s musings on the lost allure of the "Bright Young Things," WWD ...
Outrageous is a six-part U&Drama series based on the real-life Mitford sisters, who "refuse to play by the rules, attracting ...
The Mitford sisters flirted with fascism, communism, infamy and scandal – now a new drama, based on their biography by Mary ...
In his books, Evelyn Waugh was a giant of 20th Century ... His famous remark to Nancy Mitford that ”without (the Catholic Church`s) supernatural assistance I would scarcely be human” is ...
Seeking something light to read following the Christmas doldrums I decided to look into what I remembered as one of the funniest of Evelyn Waugh ... and confident, Nancy Mitford, called his ...
One must have read: Evelyn Waugh, Truman Capote, Raymond Chandler, Nancy Mitford. No one should be caught reading: Beverly Nichols, Elizabeth Bowen.” ¶ “Most smarties know very few women.
When asked by his friend Nancy Mitford how he could be so terrible ... Graham Greene, in a memorial notice after Evelyn Waugh’s death, called him "the greatest novelist of my generation." ...
Nancy Mitford—Random House—($2.75 ... wry tongue of their cult leader, Evelyn Waugh, wags through a new writer’s prose. Group One will shiver in dry-eyed disappointment over Love in ...