- Hardcover: 544 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; Reprint edition (16 Sep 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340537841
- ISBN-13: 978-0340537848
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.4 x 5.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 948,681 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Nancy Mitford died in 1973, before she could write her autobiography. This is a selection from one of the most prolific letter-writers of the 20th century. Nancy Mitford's correspondence to her wide circle of friends - Harold Acton, Robert Byron, Evelyn Waugh and Cyril Connolly - sheds a light on their lives and the times in which they lived. The book spans a period of 60 years with over 100 correspondents. It includes a collection of more than 300 letters to Evelyn Waugh, one of her closest friends. There are detailed accounts of the foolishnesses and foibles of her adopted country (France) and also in the story of her unhappy marriage and her prolonged love-affair with the "colonel", a member of de Gaulle's government. Charlotte Mosley is the editor of a collection of Nancy Mitford's journalism, "A Talent to Annoy".
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a good read, although Mitford's style can get a bit too frothy at times - all felt a bit sameish by the end of the book. However, I loved lines like "Low Church people are very holy but they do so treat God like their first cousin" and "A friend of mine called Lady Pat Russell writes from Austria that she was raped by 6 Cossacks. (Hard cheese as she is a Lesbian.) Very topical & in the swim of her isn't it. I wrote back and told her what the Americans are like here to cheer her up." and "Funny how people who know nothing about sex never do think of that sort of thing - I mean people like uncle Tommy if they meet a bugger always expect to be fallen upon tooth and nail."
But sometimes you feel that the letters she got back in return might have been the better half of the correspondence, especially as she was corresponding with the likes of Evelyn Waugh.
But sometimes you feel that the letters she got back in return might have been the better half of the correspondence, especially as she was corresponding with the likes of Evelyn Waugh.
Format:Paperback
The problem with letters like these is that they contain many references to famous contemporary figures and events which are no longer famous. Having to refer constantly to footnotes becomes an irritating interruption, yet if the footnotes were not available more irritation would be felt.
However, there is enough of interest in these letters to make them well worth reading. Nancy Mitford had a light pen and an acerbic wit and from the early days when she was trying to escape from the Redesdale family to her final harrowing four years when she gallantly fought excruciating pain, lonelinees and despair there is not a dull page in this well-edited collection.
If you have any interest in this intriguing family, beg, borrrow or steal this book.
However, there is enough of interest in these letters to make them well worth reading. Nancy Mitford had a light pen and an acerbic wit and from the early days when she was trying to escape from the Redesdale family to her final harrowing four years when she gallantly fought excruciating pain, lonelinees and despair there is not a dull page in this well-edited collection.
If you have any interest in this intriguing family, beg, borrrow or steal this book.
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In The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, Nancy Mitford is portrayed as a rather one dimensional character, who does little else but tease and rile people for a reaction. And this is the persona in which Mitford is remembered. However, this volume of letters shows the complexities of Mitford's personality better than any biography can.
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