NM
was born into an upper-class English family and grew up in the Cotswolds. Much of her youth was spent living the privileged life of a young woman of her background. From the time that...
Family and Intimate relationships
Nancy Mitford
Unity
, the next sister after Diana, developed intense Nazi sympathies during a visit to Germany in 1933. She had a crush on Hitler
, whom she stalked elaborately before she succeeded in meeting him...
Textual Production
Nancy Mitford
In her third novel, Wigs on the Green, NM
satirized the fascist
sympathies of her sisters Unity
and Diana
.
Hastings, Selina. Nancy Mitford: A Biography. Hamish Hamilton, 1985.
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Mitford, Nancy. Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford. Editor Mosley, Charlotte, Hodder and Stoughton, 1993.