Nancy Mitford

Feb 26, 2024 | primer.com.au | Laura Brading |Nancy Mitford |Annie Ernaux |Curtis Sittenfeld

Annie Brown is the Style Editor of Wish magazine and The Australian, and a watch, jewellery and fashion journalist. She is also an avid reader with impeccable taste. We asked Annie about her comfort reads, the book she read in a single sitting, and the one she recommends to everyone. Dear reader, your to-be-read pile is about to get a whole lot bigger.

Dec 25, 2023 | vogue.co.uk | Nancy Mitford

Christmas is so essentially a time (or should I say, Yule is so essentially a tide?) which ought to be spent in the country, and is so proverbially horrible in London, that the lucky owners of large country houses feel, and rightly, that it is incumbent on them to fill said houses at such a tide (or time) with those of their friends and relations who would otherwise be fated to mope in towns. Now, to most people, all entertaining is a pleasure.

Dec 24, 2023 | vogue.com | Nancy Mitford

Never marry a Mitford, as the saying goes, but some of the sisters’ party advice? Golden. In the ’20s and ’30s, long before she published The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford contributed to British Vogue on a number of occasions—hardly surprising, given her close friendship with Cecil Beaton—but never more successfully than at Christmas, when she shared her thoughts on hosting a harmonious gathering at a country pile.

May 9, 2023 | varsity.co.uk | Nancy Mitford |Sylvia Plath |Nora Ephron |Max Frisch

From a surrealist poem about ice cream and communism to a novel that “could be described as The Secret History on magic mushrooms”, here are the Arts team’s top picks to transport you anywhere other than an exam hall The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford – Grace (Arts Editor) Hilarious. Eccentric. Escapist.