Nancy mitford

by Bassano Ltd half-plate glass negative 7 July 1932 © National Portrait Gallery, London

From Uncle Matthew the hardline Brexiteer to Christian Talbot the Greta Thunberg disciple

The long read: Debrett’s has been the faithful chronicler of the British aristocracy for 250 years. Now it is reinventing itself as an engine for social mobility, offering courses in good manners and getting your foot in the door. But is this just snobbery rebranded?

Fanny Logan tells the story of her friends and their various pursuits of love.

“Isn’t it awful to love clothes as much as I do, you know, I am not vain at all,” Nancy complained to her mother, Lady Redesdale. Two decades before Nancy could afford the grandee…

Deborah Cavendish (AKA the The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire), is the youngest and last surviving member of the six Mitford sisters, and at 90 is publishing her memoirs

The early novels of Nancy Mitford reveal a wit in the making.

Nancy Mitford is not the frothy romance novelist that many think, but an accomplished writer who understood how dark life can be

BEFORE women’s rights fuelled a global debate, there were the Mitford girls.

As a BBC TV adaptation of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love becomes available to stream internationally, John Self explores its real-life inspiration – the author's own family.