Nancy Mitford
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born
November 28, 1904
died
June 30, 1973
gender
female
place of birth
London
genre
Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs
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The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels by Nancy Mitford avg rating 4.08 — 702 ratings — published 1979 6 editions |
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The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford avg rating 4.10 — 225 ratings — published 1970 11 editions |
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Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford avg rating 3.94 — 225 ratings — published 1949 15 editions |
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Madame de Pompadour (New York Review Books Classics) by Nancy Mitford avg rating 3.75 — 93 ratings — published 1954 9 editions |
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Don't Tell Alfred by Nancy Mitford avg rating 3.62 — 94 ratings — published 1910 4 editions |
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The Blessing by Nancy Mitford avg rating 3.66 — 89 ratings — published 1951 6 editions |
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The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh by Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh avg rating 4.14 — 50 ratings — published 1996 3 editions |
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Sun King : Louis Fourteenth at Versailles by Nancy Mitford avg rating 4.04 — 45 ratings — published 1966 8 editions |
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Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford avg rating 3.49 — 47 ratings — published 1987 3 editions |
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Noblesse Oblige: The Inimitable Investigation into the Idiosyncracies of English Idiom by Nancy Mitford avg rating 3.65 — 34 ratings — published 1963 9 editions |
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"I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away."
— Nancy Mitford
— Nancy Mitford
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"Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, and it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can't imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him. Linda was now looking upon the authentic face of love, and she knew it, but it frightened her. That it should come so casually, so much by a series of accidents, was frightening."
— Nancy Mitford (The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels)
— Nancy Mitford (The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels)
"I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened."
— Nancy Mitford
— Nancy Mitford
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feminism
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