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She Has Written Some of the Wittiest Books
NANCY, MOST AMAZING OF
THE AMAZING MITFORDS
66 A
By Hazel May
are
LL the Mitford up the material for three best met and fell in love with an sellers in one, book closely nudacious young man constant- daughters
followed by "Love in a Cold ly in the news at that time. beautiful and Climate" and finally by "The He was the Hon. Peter Rodd, wildly
are con of Lord Rennell who was indivi Blessing." The first two
France. Now
Blessing" is out and selling at
record rate.
20.
dual," wrote Evelyn Waugh, best sellers in England, Ameri-at one time Ambassador to
The Rome. He was 20, she was
A young men of great pre- a close friend of novelist ca
cocity and striking appearance, Nancy Mitford. It was this
a persznalty as he was already individuality which was to
Nancy was born. In 1904 give Nancy, the eldest of the the eldest of a family of six in his own right with the bene- Geneva, family, the material for daughters and one son. It was fit of a cosmopolitan education
received
at Hamburg. the age
Living of Gracious
enna and some of the wittiest novels
and the seven children of Lord Wellington College, Redesdale were brought up in Oxford. He had never passed of the post-war period.
de- examination or taken a Most of the Mitfords the best traditions of the land-
country gree, but he,read Horace and and have a genius for collected sentry cod In Homer' for relaxation ing people in the headlines calamusingly.
of Love town spoke eight languages, including around them. And they are house
in Knightsbridge, Touareg, with equal fluency. almost invariably attracted horses, servants, nannies
0
BORED
Bnd
D
Thus, one generation of daughters included Unity MB- throughout headlined ford,
as the specially the foreigners Britain when only 23
Jessien, 19- friend of Hitler:
Because they never went to year-old who made almost as
by school, and especially in the much news as her sister
young man of gaps between governesses, the
cf her choice (one Churchill's nephews) to Spain Naney started writing. during the civil war; Diana,
following the Winston Milfords were often bored. So
сале duchess
a1
ECCENTRICITIES BUT the family also included Nancy, who has captured the eccentricities of this extra- ordinary family in a series of effervescent books, and season- ed them with the personalities of some of the celebrities -
1.11
and
the
was the because
NANCY
of
was
MITFORD
of
་
money consis- changed her mind when I got tently over the there, and received mo in deal, and, even cool, charming elegance, beau- tually handed tfully dressed, her dark ex- over the running quisitely shaped head perfectly of it to the colffured. Government and fooled for an- other job.
It was shortly after she set- tled In-Parls that she wrote "Love in a Cold Climate," and By now much
was mildly surprised at the the family success it instantly enjoyed. .....money
" at
WAF
bamb dust In was grateful to her de-. .blitzed London. bunking the popular notion that She took over authors do not make much the running of a maney-or, at any rate, the au
Mayfair book- thor of a best-selling light shop for B few, novel. None of this Just-pays- months, and was the-rent-and-the-rest-goes-on- unexpectedly lett tax about Nancy.
in charge for the. whole
war.
It 사
"One earns fantastic sums,"
quickly became she said with, engaging em
a centre for all doll. "I never know where it that was left of all comes from. fashionable and Intellectual Lon- don.
At the end of War she
the
It seems to pour in all the time, royalties on this, foreign rights on that, re-print rights from somewhere else.
"It's a bad year when I only.
wrote "In Pur- net £10,000.
sult of Love,"
the book which
put her in
front rank of light
brain, and, became an sion."
TWO HOMES
.the
the
Success
to
MADE NEWS to people with strong governesses were the trappings
They had so HE made news by running that they away from Oxford to South political opinions. A of their lives.
many governesses
he America, where
explored dominant personality, pre- legt count of them.
became a bank The Mitfords were brought the Chaco, ferably engaged in pro-
things that clerk in Brazil, and took part
SMASH HIT. pagating unpopular notions, up to do all the
look in a revolution. Next, he went They nice children do. is to a Mitford what a
the air in their prams in Hyde to Timbuctu, and finally dis
LEXANDER KORDA thought in a year hunted their ponies, appeared for
luvited her over to his table the Tang horse is to a collector. Park,
instantly of Nancy when he and Saharo. on aristocratle were presented at Court Wealth and
film script written In the early thirties he de- and so began a strange friend- novelists. Part autobiographical,
part family biography, she set wanted a .ship. family background gave them Came Out when they reached
cided to stand for Parliament, meeting the traditional age.
Being a typical Mitford, she down in its pages her inimitable round the theme of a diaboll- of
"and some of the opportunity
the cal small boy, the child of an but after being adopted as Con- had the courage of her convic- family OFTEN many famous people. The duli
servative candidate for Cam-
tions.
When the tide of Eng- amazing people she had known. Anglo-French: marriage. The
result was her latest and unremarkable they allow
in Cornwall he showed
against lish
turned they
opinion borne
"I wrote it because I had to," "The Blessing although ed to slip through their fingers.
the Germans she refused to strong Interest in political de- eventually abandoned by
Association The controversial figures they after life
break with her frienda in Ger- she told me, "Gradually the film has yet to be made. The foreign monstrations,
wars, Unlonist adopted joyfully as their own.
attacked in conviction grew upon me. The film rights of Nancy's three She many.
itscit In mybest-sellors were quickly snap- picturesque characters and the his policy was "too originel." Fis.
print and mobbed by a Hyde book shaped
obses-ped up, but they have yet to Continent, despite their father's He became interested in
crowd. Park assertion that "all Abroad was elam.
be seen on collufold. It was sald of him that he
The story of her journey triends and more
subse had more
to back
Germany, and
Her style is perfectly adapt. Perhaps, one day, she will • his enemies than any man of quent retum to England shorted to her subject matter-yet write a play. Certainly, she age in London.
ly after the war's outbreak is
strictly disciplined. But it is achieved "a "smash-hit at the
For now old history. They were married
many
achieved with infinite labour. with her translation of French She
writes each book four playwright -
Roussin's end of 1933 and settled down months she lay between life
more Little Hut." Thore was times.
most work in this than in most tinued to lead the life of the whether she should or should She wrote "Highland Fine" in London, where they con- and death while M.P.s debated
high Bright was 20, a
Young
She died, Things of the not be interned.
translations; she re-wrote, some who married Britain's leading when she
at the age of Thirties. Their parties appear quite recently,
of the dialogue and the lakes. Fascist, and Deborah, who be spirited novel making fun
diaries 33
Literary
success and a high in ed in various social English the gracious
house-party typical
the of
De- PEACE came, and Nancy and, Another of the s'afers, entertain- Inter
published; Evelyn Waugh Scotland-a forth
Peter helped to vote in the
degree of popularity-for caricatured them in his novels. borah confessed to a more can- ment only too familiar to the
First they
7 lived in young Milfords, who were un
little ventional ambition. From child- Socialist Government: But they is always in demand for her her found little to please them in ready wit and charm have She will be to the house at Strand-on-the-Green, hood she had announced
then intention
post-war becoming
England's grey aus not spoilt Nancy
and willingly dragged off
Chiswick,
nd pleased near
the Arabs, as charming North every year.
artistic Duchess. .to Join the
The family treated terity. So, like newspaper cut- moved According to
and artists this as a great joke-until she they packed their tents and meet you or me as the crown- ed-and uncrowned-heads was a popular soclety of writers
moved to seek sunshine and lings, Nancy member of the young society which huddles beside the Re- confounded them all by marry-
Ing th set and was greatly in demand gent Canal-the spot recently for the heir to the Duke of gaiety on the Continent. Peter of Europe among whom she She chosen for his home by play- Devonshire.
is now the Jiked Italy, but Nancy did not, frequently moves in Paris at the parties of the period.
Her set there consists of all Duchess
her the Her wit matched the tradi- wright Christopher Fry.
"So duli," she said in
literary people worth ional Mitford beauty.
Meanwhile Nancy had been caught up in the bewildering enchanting voice, which always knowing ("It's much fun in modically she studied art
has the lilt of laughter in it, Paris writers get together the Slade, and spent some time was at this time that the first
sequence of war. Peter had
"The Italian women really are much more than in England") of the Mitford daughters joined up immediately, and
the end you know. Lolling on and the most amusing of the, in France.
The Hon.
the Army. evading hit the headlines,
went away with
satin couches day-long, with arty-and-stage people. But it sho Jessica Freeman-Mitford aged Nancy remained in London.
boxes of chocolates by their
also
includes international 19 (Nancy's fans will remem-
FALLING BOMBS
sides, all gossip and lovers up, couples like the Windsors, with in character Jazzy' bor the
staircase. bock
Such whom she often diues, and the the novels) startled everyone INTIRELY fearless, entirely the
E
routine, such tedium...." Duff Coopers: by embarking on a jaunt to a frivolous, she giggled among
wroto
up failing bombs,"
And so the Rodds keep Spain plunged in Civil War. A
At the
two homes, one in Italy, and same Evelyn Waugh. friend, Esmond Romilly,
and the
Nancy other in Paris. Churchill, time she joined the ARP nephew of Winston
Interna worked tirelessly as an was fighting in the
Alr spends most of her time in VET as I sat la that long, enchanting beautiful drawing room with tional Column.
Raid Warden for her doubtful' Paris living in on
green its exquisite French furniture But in those days when a district, where slums bordered odd white house with
Lord
17th and treasures from the family shutters, built round a peer was still
on her own artistic quarter. a peer, Redesdate had no difficulty in But being fascinated by people.
windows on to a leaf-shaded the woman who graced · 15 in so, enlisting the assistance of the of all types, she enjoyed it all wintry courtyard with French home in Londen, looking at I sensed a wintur In- nces Yard, the Admiralty, and the cessful book about the phoney wall looms the dome of
about her beauty like cloud Spanish authorities in tracking war. It was called "Pidgeon's valides,
anywhere Der in a bright summor sky. a delicious comedy about Ple high-spirited dough- down his
a Fifth Columnist in on ARP manently is
about "Living
problem," says Tall, lissom and Incredibly for:
Hitler's Nancy. However, Jazzy later mar post. Unfortunately
Rather deadly seeing graceful with great gruyoves * sudden. light with followed to blitz which
drove the season round in the Eng- which ried Romilly, and
spaniels laughter, who sometimes has a America. Ite was killed in an comedy books about war right sh countryside,
tweedy
But in sad look as if the world had air accident but she did not off the market. Now her pub and
she Ushers plan to revive it.
London, so
gay, one never proved dull button drop out of the news as
After the first heavy hom- bant
things.
unkind... American married again-an
pants for growing Nancy found herself
to "So naturally one turns And the woman who writes this Ume, Mr Truchaft and bardment,
and looking for Paris, which has everything..." become associated with Left- penniless
." 50 enchantingly about love has lives an in-a murprisingly down-to-earth There Nancy Wing politics. And recently work..
So she volunteered to she made half a column in a
turn tensely luxurious life. She does philosophy. The importance of London evening paper
when the
elegant Redesdale town most of her writing sitting up the small comforts of exis- given their place; in she cabled her £500 share in a house into a home for Jewish in an enormous bed, scribbling tence are
lly refugees.
The
her life.. transformation away in endless copybooks, family bequest to the Dally- worker.
chandelier bedecked
"Why do I remain in Parista) kod waited on by a devoted elder Unily was the next sensation drawing room and pale blue ly French maid called Marla. she repeated, to my question in the Mitford family. She all-nursery into refugee cattlementWhen a phoned her she said: "Well It's so simple. One ed more front pages than any was achieved and she worked "Yos do came to lunch and doem't really remain in places to the let's talk, but you don't mind if for love, as people like to her fingers willingly girt of her age in Britain.
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