Nancy Mitford
British writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Lived 1904 to 1973 · aged 68
Nancy Freeman-Mitford was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist who was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the London social scene in the inter-war period. She wrote several novels about upper-class life in England and France, and is considered a sharp and often provocative wit.
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"Bertie" Mitford, created Baron Redesdale in 1902
The Mitford family in 1928
Nancy, Diana, Unity and Jessica Mitford on the cover of Sketch magazine in 1932
Asthall Manor, the Mitford family home between 1919 and 1926
Mitford's marriage to Peter Rodd in 1933
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A commemorative plaque at the entrance to the Heywood Hill bookshop, Curzon StreetAwards
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She also has a reputation as a writer of popular historical biographies.
