August 2012
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“She was filled with a wild, unfamiliar happiness, and knew that this was love....”
– Nancy Mitford “The Pursuit of Love” (via infantiloide)
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iwhohavenoface:
“Violet is madder than ever. She said to a friend of mine, whom she has just met, do you know who I am? (I said the answer should be the man in the Iron Mask?) I am the daughter of Edward VII but don’t tell anybody.”
- Nancy Mitford writing to Harold Acton , mid 1960’s.
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“I expect Muv’s told you all the low down on the wedding so I won’t bother to...”
– Jessica Mitford to Deborah Mitford, May 1937 (via fineoldconflicts)
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“The family are in a terrible financial crisis. However we continue to eat as...”
– Nancy Mitford in a letter to her brother (via nicolebonnet)
July 2012
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“There was drama when Linda, aged ten, attempted suicide in order to rejoin an...”
– The Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford (via iphigenias)
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“When I met Decca Mitford at Cousin Dorothy’s the other weekend we both more or...”
– Esmond Romilly to Nellie Romilly, 1937 (via fineoldconflicts)
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I don't care if it's wrong,
studiochatter:
I kind of root for Nancy and Prod. I’ll overlook an awful lot for stories like this:
“The German Ambassador invited us to a party in German which is very rude so Rodd refused in Yiddish.” (Nancy to Decca, 1937)
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Deborah Mitford in a letter to Jessica, 6 May 1940
Lots of my friends are in France & some in Norway so I don’t think it sounds much fun in London. How that will make you roar. I always think while I’m writing how terrifically you despise my life.
I expect you know that Honks [Diana] produced another ten pound boy the other day [Max Mosley], she really does make a habit of it. She & the Leader [Sir Oswald Mosley] really do get on well,...
June 2012
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“If I had a girl I should say to her, «Marry for love if you can, it won’t last,...”
– Nancy Mitford, Christmas Pudding. (via bookaddictiion)
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stupendous-operatic-spectacle:
Evelyn Waugh had criticised The American Way of Death, for its lack of a ‘plainly stated attitude towards death’. [Jessica Mitford] replied via her sister Nancy: ‘… tell him of course I’m against it’.
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“All humans are the same, so there’s no point making a great fuss about who is...”
– Her Grace Deborah Cavendish, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (via acockeyedoptimist)
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“I don’t suppose you saw Kit [Diana’s husband] on telly the other day (Thames)...”
– Diana Mitford Mosley in a letter to her sister Deborah, excerpt from The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters (via baptisms-)
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“It suddenly occurs to you that the hundreds of people you see in the course of a...”
– Jessica Mitford, Hons & Rebels
I’m not quite done the Barbie book or the Garman book, but I was finally able to get my hands on a copy of this (turns out my account at my school library is good through the summer) and it is wonderful.
(via sylviawrath)
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“Muv says it’s a lovely baby so I can see she is losing her grip because she’s...”
– Nancy Mitford to her sister Deborah, after the birth of Debo’s third child. (via studiochatter)
May 2012
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“Diana’s way of talking was unique. One day when she was driving with Sir O along...”
– Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire describing her sister Diana in Wait for Me! (via baptisms-)
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“Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and...”
– Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love (via dancingtoanimaginarysong)
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April 2012
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“I was completely, deeply committed; I hadn’t been able to take my eyes off...”
– Jessica Mitford, Hons and Rebels (via fineoldconflicts)
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“After agricultural shows, Marks & Spencer is the place to go shopping, and...”
– Her Grace Deborah Cavendish, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, in Counting My Chickens…And Other Home Thoughts (via acockeyedoptimist)
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Mitford manor house gutted by fire
A POSH manor house built by the Mitford family has been badly damaged after a blaze broke out in the drawing room.
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Fire crews rushed to the sprawling three-storey mansion and battled to save the hundreds of valuable antiques inside.
Six people — said to be guests and staff members — had to be evacuated from the historic three-storey home as acrid black smoke engulfed the property.
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“…indeed, with the Radletts, you never could tell. Why, for instance, would...”
– Nancy Mitford, Love in a Cold Climate
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“I have missed you enormously the last few days — it has been similar to a...”
– Esmond Romilly to Jessica Mitford, 1940 (via fineoldconflicts)
March 2012
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“She had all the sentimentality of her generation, and this sentimentality,...”
– Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford (via touchingfromalongdistance)
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“It’s no good pretending that winning isn’t marvellous, I speak as a life-long...”
– Diana Mitford, Lady Mosley, in a letter to her sister Deborah Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (via acockeyedoptimist)
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“In the nineteen-sixties when very short skirts were the fashion, Nancy said,...”
– Diana Mitford (via ancientqueen) 