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selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2019-08-22 04:58 am (UTC)

Nancy Mitford I

No, Nancy Mitford didn't have kids, but she was one of THE Mitfords, as in, the most (in)famous British family of the 20th century this side of the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas Windsors. Her father had a lot in common with FW as a parent, while Nancy, the oldest Mitford sister, as a sibling had more than a few things in common with Fritz. (Though with better reason. I mean, denouncing your sister as a traitor and ensuring she remains locked up for the the remainder of WWII is unsisterly, but if your sister Diana happens to be married to Fascist leader Oswald Mosley and has had Hitler as a wedding guest, it's not, err, unprovoked.) Another thing Nancy shared with Fritz was Francophilia - she moved to Paris permanently early on - and corresponding with one of the most praised Writers of the day (Evelyn Waugh) who clearly thinks himself her superior but yet can't resist exchanging barbed one liners.

The most famous of the Mitford Sisters:

Nancy the novelist (and occasional biographer)
Diana, first a famous Society Beauty, then a famous Fascist
Unity, an even more famous Fascist due to being so much of a Hitler fangirl that she stalked him in Munich until being admitted to his inner circle; she tried to commit suicide by shooting herself in the head when WWII started, survived that, was brought back to England in a coma and lived for a few more years until she died
Jessica ("Decca") the communist and heroic anti-Fascist freedom fighter in Spain who later moved to the US and promptly ran into Trouble with McCarthyism as she remained an social activist all her life

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