Printed card sent by Nancy Mitford to acknowledge letters and requests which she did not consider deserved a proper reply.
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Nancy Mitford, from The Pursuit of Love
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She was a great dreamer of love.
Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love (1945)
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Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
Nancy Mitford, Christmas Pudding (1932)
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“Even if I take him out for three hours every day, and go and chat to him for another hour, that leaves twenty hours for him all alone with nothing to do. Oh, why can't dogs read?”
― Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love
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The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
Summary: The story of the eccentric Radletts of Alconleigh, a large aristocratic family, as their children grow up in the years leading up to WWII.
Quote: “The Radletts were always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair; their emotions were on no ordinary plane, they loved or they loathed, they laughed or they cried, they lived in a world of superlatives.”
My rating: 4.0/5.0 Goodreads: 3.95/5.0
Review: This airy satire of British aristocracy in WWII and the years leading up to it has a subtle, intelligent bite to it. The Radletts are wonderfully over-the-top and they speak a dialect of their own; a breezy flow that is a pleasure to read. The book has all the usual pleasures of a society novel—there are grand parties, unwise love affairs, eccentric relatives—but beneath all the frothy delights, there is an uncurrent of sadness, the sense of a time lost forever, which adds depth to the novel and makes the ending feel like a perfect fit.
Note: The Mitford sisters—who served as inspiration for their sister’s novel—were deeply involved with fascism (and in one case communism), but serious political discussion is not part of this novel.
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Love Indeed-whoever invented love ought to be shot.
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Wrapped in her mink bedspread, she would lie all day reading fairy stories.
Nancy Mitford
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Blue plaque for Nancy Mitford on the wall of the booksellers where she worked for a few years, Curzon street, Mayfair,London.
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Friendship is something to be built up carefully, by people with leisure, it is an art, nature does not enter into it.
Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love
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My updated Nancy Mitford collection photo and Jessica Mitford’s Hons and Rebels.
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is there any other swiftie nancy mitford fans out here? the bolter on ttpd is basically the mom in the pursuit of love(she’s called the bolter), and it reminded me
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