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The entertaining and warm intelligence of Diana Mosley was the surprise discovery of the recently published letters of the six Mitford sisters. Throughout two marriages first to Bryan Guinness then to Oswald Mosley Diana's life was a galaxy of the titled, the brilliant, the famous and the infamous: Winston Churchill, Evelyn Waugh, Dora Carrington, John Betjeman, Aldous Huxley, Edith Sitwell, Sir Thomas Beecham, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Kurt Weill as well as Hitler, Eva Braun, and the Goebbels. Without exception, they were charmed by her beauty, and cleverness. When she began her own journalism for a privately printed magazine she had an incomparable store of insider knowledge to draw on, apart from a wicked sense of humour. Preferring biographies and autobiographies, she reviewed mostly writers whom she knew, illuminating their lives with intimate and hilarious details. Other subjects she wrote about range widely from France and love, to sex and prostitution. The Pursuit of Laughter collects Diana Mosley's articles for the first time, revealing her passion for jokes and anecdotes. Setting out to amuse the reader, she teases apart the inconsistencies of her subjects in the elegant English of a born storyteller.
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The Pursuit of Laughter Essays, Articles, Reviews & A Diary of the Most Glamorous Mitford Sister
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'Sharp, funny, debunking.' David Sexton Evening Standard --m
Stuffed with lives and letters.' Valerie Grove The Times --m
'Fascinating figures, from Cecil Beaton and the Duchess of Windsor to Putzi Hanfstaengl, Hitler of course and Dr Goebbels.' Selina Hastings Spectator --m
'Roar with laughter.' Laura Thompson --1
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- PublisherGibson Square Books Ltd
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1906142106
- ISBN 13 9781906142100
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages416
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