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Dreaming of summer wanders around gorgeous country manors laden with roses

Asthall Manor, Asthall, England, UK ~ Stacy Michelle Cartledge

#Asthall manor #Asthall #england #Uk #Edit: garden #Architecture #Elegant countryside #cottagecore #cotswolds #garden #flowers #my edit

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asthall manor in oxfordshire, england ⋅ ph. clive nichols 

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#cottage garden #asthall manor #gardenista #path #afotw #Landscape Architecture

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Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel :: Anne de Courcy

Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler’s Angel :: Anne de Courcy

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Una de las zonas más bonitas de Inglaterra, el corazón del voto a favor del Brexit, son The Costwolds. Una zona que agrupa varios condados.

Esto es Asthall Manor está en un pueblecito de Oxfordshire. Asthall, claro, como se iba a llamar si no.

#oxfordshire #costwolds #asthall #manor #uk #england #inglaterra

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Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire, UK

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#not mine #photography #roses #flowers #floral #spring #springtime #romantic aesthetic #pinkcore #coquette #vintage aesthetic #spring aesthetic #floral aesthetic #e

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Clouds on the lawn !  Sculpture exhibition at Asthall Manor, July 2022

Big Dreams by Rob Good

#wano #myphoto #sculpture

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Asthall Manor, the Cotswolds, England  Photo by Clive Nichols

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pagewoman: Asthall Manor, Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, England   by... https://georgianadesign.tumblr.com/post/716571654947487744

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Nancy Mitford ~ the water beetle Petit livre ancien relié En anglais Illustrated by Osbert Lancaster Edition Hamish Hamilton London 144 pages 1962 Nancy Mitford, styled The Hon. Nancy Mitford before her marriage and The Hon. Mrs Peter Rodd thereafter, was an English novelist and biographer, one of the Bright Young People on the London social scene in the inter-war years. She was born at 1 Graham Street (now Graham Place) in Belgravia, London, the eldest daughter of Lord Redesdale, and was brought up at Asthall Manor in Oxfordshire... #librairiemelodieensoussol  #melodieensoussol #oiseaumortvintage #libraire #librairie #librairiemarseille #librairieparis #librairieindependante #librairieenligne #librairiedoccasion #livresdoccasion #nancymitford https://www.instagram.com/p/CoJ3izxsL3v/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#the mitford sisters #Asthall Manor #Nancy Mitford #The Pursuit of Love #english manor #english countryside #united kingdom #country living #summer aesthetic #english garden #english summer

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The opulent Asthall Manor hosts a sculpture exhibition each summer, for just over a month, where you can enjoy the magnificent gardens. The manor was built in around 1620, and altered/enlarged in 1916. It has since been made grade II listed. 🧚‍♀️🍃 Asthall, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom ~ James Lloyd Cole

#ashtall manor #Oxfordshire #England #elegant countryside #flowers #garden #united kingdom #Architecture #architecture edit #my edit

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Their emotions were on no ordinary plane, they loved or they loathed, they laughed or they cried, they lived in a world of superlatives.

- Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford was her fifth novel published in 1945. It is the first novel in a trilogy of which Love in a Cold Climate and Don’t Tell Alfred form a part. The Pursuit of Love was the first novel that brought Mitford popularity and literary fame. The story's genius lies in its wicked humour, which remains relentlessly uplifting even as the Blitz begin to smash all the hopes of that pre-war arcadia felt by England’s ruling classes between the wars. The lacerating ironies of the very posh and privileged have never seemed so life affirming.

Although the threat of impending war and its repercussions play a major role in the unfolding of the story. at the heart of the tale is the story of a young woman’s lifelong quest to find love.

The story is told through the eyes of Fanny Logan, cousin to the Radlett children. Fanny’s mother - wittily described as the ‘Bolter’ in the story due to her tendency to form a series of monogamous romantic attachments, abandoned her daughter at a very young age, leaving her to be brought up by her younger, unmarried sister- Aunt Emily. Aunt Sadie, mother to the Radlett children is the third sister.

The Pursuit of Love really focuses on the two cousins and close best friends, Linda Radlett and Fanny Logan. While Fanny follows a pretty straightforward trajectory in life, following the rules and settling down with a kind Oxford don, Linda throws all caution to the wind and follows passion. She first marries, against her family’s wishes, a handsome, right-wing politician. That marriage is immediately a disaster. Then, after wasting seven years partying with the “Bright Young Things” of London, she falls hard for a young Communist named Christian Talbot. She divorces her husband, causing a scandal, and runs away to Southern France to volunteer aid in the Spanish Civil War. Ultimately, Linda winds up in Paris with a new lover before World War II brings her back to England, and more tragedy.

The novel was laergely considered semi-autobiographical on Nancy Mitford’s life as well as her family. While there aren’t direct one-to-one correlations between Linda, Fanny, and the Mitford sisters, The Pursuit of Love borrows from a lot of the family’s wilder stories. Life at Alconleigh was modeled after the Mitfords’ childhood at their ancestral home of Asthall Manor. (The Hon club is actually a focus of Nancy’s sister Jessica Mitford’s own memoir Hons and Rebels.)

Nancy’s best-loved novels loosely fictionalised the outsized personalities of her family and their radical choices in the early 20th century. The Mitford sisters were society favorites in the ’30s and ’40s, but they weren’t as well known for their partying as for their radically different choices of political parties. Nancy and her sister Jessica evolved into left-leaning writers. Jessica, in particular, was an all-out Communist who ran away from home to fight in the Spanish Civil War and forge a career as an investigative journalist.

If that sounds slightly familiar, that might be because both Linda and her little sister’s storylines crib from this. But Nancy Mitford also had her Linda-esque moments. She spent years pining after Hamish St Clair Erskine, a younger, flamboyant man who was gay and basically everything her staunchly conservative father would reject. (Sound a bit like Lord Merlin to you? ) When that eventually fell apart, she had a brief, ill-fated marriage that ended rather quick. Like Linda, she didn’t initially have success in love and eventually found her way to Paris, where she lived out her days, becoming a best-selling novelist and biographer.

#mitford #nancy mitford #quote #literature #books #pursuit of love #aristocracy #nobility #femmes #english #society #culture #BBC film series

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#land art #afotw #asthall manor #art

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English country garden surrounding Asthall Manor, a gabled Jacobean Cotswold manor house originally built in the 1620s and later altered and enlarged in the 1910s. Asthall, Oxfordshire, England.

#architecture #design #awesome

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Asthall Manor in Asthall, Oxfordshire, England 🇬🇧