![]() ![]() The global appetite for stories about the goings-on and misdeeds of the British elite appears to be limitless. ![]() Case in point: The Pursuit of Love, a semi-autobiographical novel by Nancy Mitford, has been made into three separate series over the years, including the just-released BBC/Amazon series adapted and directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James and Dominic West. ![]() Today, nearly a century later, Mitford biographies hit bestseller lists the sisters’ lives are endlessly parsed in articles and documentaries stories based on them are regularly dramatized. “There we were, larger than life,” Jessica said, “Mitfords renamed Radletts.”ĭuring the 1930s and '40s, the brood-six sisters and a lone brother, Tom- provided relentless headlines and commanded both admiration and virulent hatred. ![]() With the novel, Nancy had pulled off a seemingly impossible feat: she’d fictionalized her complicated, calamitous family-with all its Fascist fervor and Nazi ties-and turned them into charmingly eccentric toffs. “How I shrieked,” Jessica Mitford once said of reading her older sister Nancy’s now-classic book The Pursuit of Love. ![]()
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