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2 unusual facts about Nancy Mitford


14th Lambda Literary Awards

Nancy Mitford, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

U and non-U English

The English author Nancy Mitford was alerted and immediately took up the usage in an essay, “The English Aristocracy”, which Stephen Spender published in his magazine Encounter in 1954.


Mrs Craddock

Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love (1945) is about the lives and loves of an unconventional British upper class family in rural England before and during the Second World War.

Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross

Her grandmother, Trix Ruthveen, was the model for "the bolter" in Nancy Mitford's novel The Pursuit of Love.

Pont Street

In Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate, the heroine's aunt, who is bringing her up to mix in the best society, is said to "keep her nose firmly to Pont Street".


see also

Gaston Palewski

In the English-speaking world Palewski is known chiefly through his appearance as Fabrice, duc de Sauveterre, in two of Nancy Mitford's novels, The Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949).