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Tag Archives: Nancy Mitford
Socialites to Socialists: Inez Holden and Nancy Mitford
Two books in the news were written by or about two of Waugh’s friends and fellow writers: Inez Holden and Nancy Mitford. As explained in reviews of those books, both progressed from upper-class to left-wing political views: –Novelist and critic … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Evelyn Waugh Studies, Newspapers, Vile Bodies
Tagged D.J.Taylor, Guardian, Inez Holden, Laura Thompson, Literary Review, Nancy Mitford, New York Times
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Mitford and Merton and Waugh
—The London Magazine has published on its website a copy of Evelyn Waugh’s 1960 review of Nancy Mitford’s last novel Don’t Tell Alfred: While looking through our archive recently we came across this review by Evelyn Waugh of Nancy Mitford’s … Continue reading
Posted in Brideshead Revisited, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Evelyn Waugh Society, Newspapers
Tagged America: The Jesuit Review, Mary Gordon, Nancy Mitford, The London Magazine, Thomas Merton
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Tatler Reopens U/Non-U Debate
A recent feature article in Tatler magazine reopens the ever popular discussion of English social class markers usually referred to as the U/Non-U debate originally sparked by an article by Nancy Mitford. This latest discussion is by Matthew Bell. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Letters, Men at Arms, Newspapers, Put Out More Flags, Television Programs
Tagged Nancy Mitford, NBC, Tatler, U/Non-U
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U and Non-U in TLS
The U and Non-U debate about social class distinctions that raged (if that’s the correct word) in the 1950s has resurfaced in the TLS. This appears in its N.B. column that is written by J. C. (believed to be James … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Discussions, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged James Campbell, Nancy Mitford, TLS, U and Non-U
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Long-Missing Waugh Letter for Sale
Peter Harrington Booksellers are offering the original of a 24 January 1958 letter from Evelyn Waugh to Nancy Mitford. The letter was published in full in the Christopher Sykes biography (Penguin, p. 525) but had gone missing when Charlotte Mosley … Continue reading
Posted in Biographies, Evelyn Waugh, Items for Sale, Letters
Tagged Charlotte Mosley, Christopher Sykes, Nancy Mitford, Peter Harrington Booksellers
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Weekend Roundup–Friends at a Distance: Mitford/Waugh Letters
An article on the books blog The Captive Reader is effectively a new review of The Letters of Nancy Mitford & Evelyn Waugh first published in 1996. This is written by “Claire of Vancouver” and opens with this: Mitford and … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Letters, Scott-King's Modern Europe, The Loved One
Tagged catholicism.org, Latin Mass, Lucy Beckett, Muriel Spark, Nancy Mitford, Robert Hickson, The Irish Times, TLS
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Waugh and the Honours List
Twice a year (on the Queen’s Birthday and New Years) the London papers can be expected to drag out their list of those who in the past have rejected honours offered them just as the papers announce the latest list of … Continue reading
Posted in Evelyn Waugh, Events, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Anthony Powell, CBE, Graham Greene, honours, Huffington Post, Maurice Bowra, Nancy Mitford, The Mirror
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Baltimore Sun Quotes Waugh on Useage
In his Baltimore Sun column entitled “You Don’t Say” (about language, useage, etc.), John McIntyre quotes a paragraph from a letter Evelyn Waugh wrote to Nancy Mitford in which Waugh comments on an article she wrote for Encounter magazine on the … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Baltimore Sun, John McIntyre, Nancy Mitford
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Country Life Revisits “U and Non-U” Controversy
Country Life magazine has published an article reviewing the “U and Non-U” speech controversy 60 years since it raged in the 1950s after it was publicized by Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, inter alia, in the collection of essays published … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Articles, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Newspapers
Tagged Country Life, Nancy Mitford, U and Non-U
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Waugh Lecture on Friendship with Nancy Mitford
Lancing College has posted a report on the annual Evelyn Waugh Lecture which was presented last week at the college by Selina Hastings: Selina’s subject for her talk was the literary and epistolary relationship between Waugh and his lifetime friend, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Events, Lancing, Lectures, Letters
Tagged Nancy Mitford, Selina Hastings
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