This September’s new paperback selection is only the start of a season of great reads from Fredrik Backman, Stephen Graham Jones, and more!
What explains the endless obsession with six British socialites of a bygone era? Probably their beauty, wit, eccentricity . . . and epic split over Hitler’s rise.
The lives of the beautiful and gifted Mitford sisters read like fiction. They were strong, gifted and their lives entwined and infiltrated every aspect of society. In a Forest Gump sort of way, they were always on the edge of history and sometimes actively involved.
With a new adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love on our screens, the peculiarly Mitfordian combination of ballgowns and homemade knits look appealing again
Here I give you a whiff of the six Mitford sisters, five of which came to either prominence or notoriety and thus became part of 20th centur...
Unity Valkyrie FreemanMitford (8 August 1914 28 May 1948) was an English socialite best known as a devotee of Adolf Hitler. Both in Britain and Germany, she was a prominent supporter of Nazism and fascism, and formed part of Hitler's inner circle of friends. Following the declaration of World War
How come you never heard of the Mitford Sisters! Sadly Debo or Lady Devonshire has just died at 94 she is surely the last link to this family. As a teenager she danced with a young Jack Kennedy !
What explains the endless obsession with six British socialites of a bygone era? Probably their beauty, wit, eccentricity . . . and epic split over Hitler’s rise.
The formidable 20th century sisters who each forged their own path lived in some marvellous historic abodes between Ireland, Oxfordshire and France – here Tatler chronicles the finest
The Mitfords were the original tribe of It-girls:
Famous and infamous epicureans, socialites, hosts, philanthropists, and entertainers who have affected the social scene in recent history.
Nancy FreemanMitford (28 November 1904 30 June 1973), known as Nancy Mitford, was an English novelist, biographer and journalist. One of the renowned Mitford sisters and one of the Bright Young People on the London social scene in the interwar years, she is best remembered for her novels about
I've scanned some rare photos for The Mitford Society from the out of print The Mitford Family Album by Sophia Murphy (Debo's youngest dau...
With a new adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love on our screens, the peculiarly Mitfordian combination of ballgowns and homemade knits look appealing again
Recommended reading: Victorian-Gilded Age-Edwardian-World War historical biographies and books about British and American society...
Why are the Mitford sisters such a continuing source of fascination?
curious thing is kat himmel & i'm a portrait artist & illustrator.
The Duchess of Devonshire, who died recently, was the last surviving member of the Mitford sisters, a group of aristocratic siblings whose lives mirrored the turbulence of the 20th century and fascinated British society
Why are the Mitford sisters such a continuing source of fascination?
The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, who has died aged 94, was the youngest and last of the celebrated Mitford sisters, and the chatelaine of Chatsworth, the “Palace of the Peak” in Derbyshire, which from the 1950s onwards she made into both a glorious public spectacle and, really for the first time, a consummately stylish private home.
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford’s finest novel, opens with a vignette that evokes the uncanny blend of domestic intimacy and world-historical trauma experienced by the author and her six younger siblings—Pamela, Tom, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah:There is a photograph in existence of Aunt Sadie and her six children sitting round the tea-table at Alconleigh. The table is situated, as it was, is now, and ever shall be, in the hall, in front of a huge open fire of logs. Over the chimney-piece plainly visible in the photograph, hangs an entrenching tool, with which, in 1915, Uncle ...
