Nancy Mitford

One friend won't eat anything white – presumably no potatoes, cream, baps and peppermints; though it does rather remind one of Davey's barmy diets in Nancy Mitford's Pursuit of Love – he ate only red things at one meal, white at the next.

The Katharine Whitehorn experience 2011

Bridget Jones might have felt fresh and funny but Helen Fielding wasn't doing anything that Jane Austen, Nancy Mitford or Stella Gibbons weren't doing decades earlier.

Should we mourn the end of chick-lit? 2011

He shared tea with the queen, lunched with writer Nancy Mitford, spent Christmas with the Duchess of Westminster and had a long, intense affair with the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen.

Five Best 2010

Nancy Mitford as a British society-magazine cover subject in 1933.

The Pursuit of Laughter 2010

He shared tea with the queen, lunched with writer Nancy Mitford, spent Christmas with the Duchess of Westminster and had a long, intense affair with the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen.

Five Best 2010

He shared tea with the queen, lunched with writer Nancy Mitford, spent Christmas with the Duchess of Westminster and had a long, intense affair with the Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen.

Five Best 2010

Nancy Mitford (1904-73) became a novelist, drawing deeply from her family and its aristocratic milieu, often treating her siblings with affectionate mockery, most famously in "The Pursuit of Love" (1945).

The Pursuit of Laughter 2010

Anyone who has read Ms. Hastings's biographies of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford will know that she writes beautifully and has a talent for shaping a narrative; she is also adept at combining sympathy for her subjects with a tough-minded sense of their less pleasant traits and actions.

Read More Than Respected 2010

Known for her bios of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford, Selina Hastings combines an engaging prose style with ample amounts of gossip and insight.

Brooks Peters: Mariage Blanc 2010

In 1951 Nancy Mitford rejected an offer to reprint her pre – World War II satire Wigs on the Green, explaining to her friend Evelyn Waugh, "Too much has happened for jokes about Nazis to be regarded as funny or as anything but the worst of taste."

The Fascist in the Family 2010