A member of one of the aristocracy's more eccentric families, and educated at home with a clutch of siblings, Mitford used childhood experience, lightly fictionalised, in her comic novels, including The Pursuit of Love (1945). Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London. But beneath the glittering surfaces and perfectly timed comic dialogue, Nancy Mitford's novels are also touching hymns to a lost era and to the brevity of life and love from one of the most individual, beguiling and creative users of the language. In The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing, her extraordinary heroines deal with armies of hilariously eccentric relatives, the excitement of love and passion, and the thrills of the social Season. Nancy Mitford's brilliantly witty, irreverent stories of the upper classes in pre-war London and Paris conjure up a world of glamour, gossip and decadence.
Some of his acquaintances only learn his first name ( Harvey) at his wedding. Only Known by Their Nickname: Boy Dougdale.
Likes Older Men: Both the men Polly shows any active interest in are decades older than herself.First-Person Peripheral Narrator: Fanny, as in The Pursuit Of Love.Ephebophile: Boy Dougdale, dubbed the "Lecherous Lecturer" by the Radlett girls.Depraved Bisexual: Downplayed with Boy Dougdale, who despite his lecherous streak, is treated as a generally non-malicious and rather comedic figure.One of the reasons he manages to be socially successful despite the homophobia of the era. Camp Gay: By the standards of the Genteel Interbellum Setting, Cedric is flaming.
"When ill or tired, she merely looked fragile, but never yellow, withered or diminished she was born beautiful and never, at any time when I knew her, went off or became less beautiful, but on the contrary her looks always steadily improved."
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