Nit, Sick and Bore
India Knight: The Mitfords, 3 January 2002
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
by Mary Lovell.
Little, Brown, 611 pp., £20, September 2001,0 316 85868 4 Show More
by Mary Lovell.
Little, Brown, 611 pp., £20, September 2001,
Nancy Mitford: A Memoir
by Harold Acton.
Gibson Square, 256 pp., £16.99, September 2001,1 903933 01 3 Show More
by Harold Acton.
Gibson Square, 256 pp., £16.99, September 2001,
“... left with girls in pearls living borderline tragic lives, or with the po-faced, lumpen Unity Mitford – galumph, galumph – who, unlike her five sisters (in descending order: Nancy, Pam, Diana, Unity, Decca, Debo; there was also a brother, Tom), had little talent for levity. So the jokes are crucial. One occasionally gets the impression, from Mary ... ”