![]() ![]() ![]() 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. “Hearst Magazines and Verizon Media may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below.” ![]()
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