February 2011
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“I must tell about Alan Lennox-Boyd. Well he went to get his annual injection...”
– Nancy Mitford in a letter to Evelyn Waugh, 22 Dec 1944 (via thesoap-box)
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“Brideshead has come, beautiful in orig. boards, a triumph of book production....”
– Nancy Mitford from a letter she wrote to Evelyn Waugh after reading Brideshead Revisited
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“Mother, of course, takes a lot of exercise, walks and so on. And every morning...”
– Nancy Mitford from he novel Christmas Pudding
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“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no...”
– Nancy Mitford
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“You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the...”
– Jessica Mitford (via parisandbuttermilk)
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Excerpt from Jessica's out of print autobiography... →
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