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Cultural formation | Nancy Mitford | 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... |
Education | J. K. Rowling | Formative early reading included Richard Scarry
and Kenneth Grahame
's The Wind in the Willows. Joanne Rowling did not care for Enid Blyton
as a young child but acquired a taste for her later... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nancy Mitford | Jessica
, the sister who followed Unity in age, eloped in her teens with a still younger cousin who was off to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Nancy and her husband were despatched as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | J. K. Rowling | Joanne Rowling
bore her first child, a daughter, in Porto and named her Jessica
(after Jessica Mitford
, she says). Smith, Sean. J. K. Rowling. A Biography. Arrow. 132 |
Health | Nancy Mitford |
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