The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh - Hardcover

Mitford, Nancy; Waugh, Evelyn

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9780340638040: The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh

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ISBN 10: 0340638044 ISBN 13: 9780340638040

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1996

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The writers Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were great friends, and their friendship gave rise to the 500 letters in this collection.

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About the Author:

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903, second son of Arthur Waugh, publisher and literary critic, and brother of Alec Waugh, the popular novelist. He was educated at Lancing and Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1928 he published his first work, a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). Waugh travelled extensively and also wrote several travel books, as well as a biography of Edmund Campion and Ronald Knox. Other famous works include his Sword of Honour trilogy, and Brideshead Revisited (1945).

Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest child of the second Baron Redesdale. Her childhood in a large remote country house with her five sisters and one brother is recounted in the early chapters of The Pursuit of Love (1945), which according to the author, is largely autobiographical. Apart from being taught to ride and speak French, Nancy Mitford always claimed she never received a proper education. She started writing before her marriage in 1932 in order 'to relieve the boredom of the intervals between the recreations established by the social convention of her world' and had written four novels before the success of The Pursuit of Love in 1945.

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