Nancy Mitford by Harold Acton

Nancy Mitford

A Memoir

Harold Acton

The only biography in print of Nancy Mitford, written by her friend Harold Acton shortly after her death. Defining an exceptionally witty era whose vanishing continues to fascinate, Nancy Mitford’s writings have remained steadfast in their popularity – like those of Evelyn Waugh, her male counterpart. The repackaging of Mitford’s novels Love in A Cold Climate, The Pursuit of Love, Don’t Tell Alfred (Penguin 2000/1) and a recent television series on the Mitfords have done much to feed the interest in her life. Harold Acton’s book is driven by his intimate knowledge of her. Both belonging to a blissfully carefree generation, he shows her as she thought of herself and was seen by those closest to her. Formidable, loyal, amusing and determined, her life was tragic only in that she knew exactly how to handle her fate with a supreme wit reminiscent of Bridget Jones’ diaries.

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Details

ISBN 9780060100186
Genre Autobiography/Biography; Grier Rated
Publication Date 1975
Publisher Harper & Row
Format Hardcover
No. of Pages 252
Language English
Rating NotRated
Subject Novelists, English – Biography
BookID 8700

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