Nancy Mitford
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Standard Name: Mitford, Nancy
Birth Name: Nancy Mitford
Married Name: Nancy Rodd
is best-known for her novels, witty comedies of twentieth-century manners which draw on her own privileged background. Her accounts of love and disappointment among the upper classes frequently include political references (fascism, communism) or have wartime settings (Spanish Civil War, World War Two). She also wrote biography, translation, and essays and journalism including a famous squib about the way the English language reflects the social class of the speaker.
Timeline
Texts
Mitford, Nancy. Christmas Pudding. Thornton Butterworth, 1932.
Mitford, Nancy. “Critical Materials”. Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, edited by Charlotte Mosley, Hodder and Stoughton, 1993, p. various pages.
Mitford, Nancy, and Evelyn Waugh. “Critical Materials”. The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, edited by Charlotte Mosley, Hodder and Stoughton, 1996, p. various pages.
Mitford, Nancy. Don’t Tell Alfred. Hamish Hamilton, 1960.
Mitford, Nancy. Frederick the Great. Hamish Hamilton, 1970.
Mitford, Nancy. Highland Fling. Thornton Butterworth, 1931.
Mitford, Nancy. Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford. Editor Mosley, Charlotte, Hodder and Stoughton, 1993.
Mitford, Nancy. Love in a Cold Climate. Hamish Hamilton, 1949.
Mitford, Nancy. Madame de Pompadour. Hamish Hamilton, 1954.
Mitford, Nancy, editor. Noblesse Oblige. Penguin, 1959.
Mitford, Nancy. Pigeon Pie. Hamish Hamilton, 1940.
Mitford, Nancy. The Blessing. Hamish Hamilton, 1951.
Mitford, Nancy, and Evelyn Waugh. The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh. Editor Mosley, Charlotte, Hodder and Stoughton, 1996.
Roussin, André. The Little Hut. Translator Mitford, Nancy, 1950.
Lafayette, Marie-Madeleine de. The Princess of Clèves. Translator Mitford, Nancy, Euphorion Press, 1950.
Mitford, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love. Hamish Hamilton, 1945.
Mitford, Nancy. The Sun King. Hamish Hamilton, 1966.
Mitford, Nancy. The Water Beetle. Hamish Hamilton, 1962.
Mitford, Nancy. Voltaire in Love. Hamish Hamilton, 1957.
Mitford, Nancy. Wigs on the Green. Thornton Butterworth, 1935.