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How a little Mayfair bookshop inspired Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love


How a little Mayfair bookshop inspired Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love
Having almost given up writing, Nancy Mitford joined Heywood Hill bookshop, turning it into a literary salon that inspired her greatest work
Heywood Hill bookshop in Mayfair, beloved by the Queen
The year is 1936: Jesse Owens embarrasses the Third Reich at its own Olympics, Edward VIII ascends the throne and Heywood Hill, a little bookshop on Curzon Street in Mayfair, opens its doors for the first time. Named after the proprietor George Heywood Hill, an Old Etonian who married the daughter of the Earl of Cranbrook, the bookshop initially specialised in first and limited editions as well as Victorian toys, with most of its clientele aristocrats due to its affluent location.

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The Mitfords: the Kardashians of their day

The Mitfords: the Kardashians of their day
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The Mitfords in pictures: parties, politics and the real Pursuit of Love


The Mitfords in pictures: parties, politics and the real Pursuit of Love
Meet the stranger-than-fiction family behind the BBC drama, who kept horses on the staircase and Nazis in the closet
17 May 2021 • 6:57am
When The Pursuit of Love came out in 1945, Evelyn Waugh noted in his diary: “Nancy has written a novel full of exquisite detail of Mitford family life”. Nancy Mitford never found a muse to match her own family. Even later, when she came to write historical biography, starting with her acclaimed Madame de Pompadour, she couldn’t help turning it into a breed of memoir: “I do love it... They were all exactly like ONE,” she wrote in a letter.

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With The Pursuit of Love, the Mitfords became the Kardashians of their day


With The Pursuit of Love, the Mitfords became the Kardashians of their day
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“My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is
White Fang. It’s so frightfully good I’ve never bothered to read another.” So says Uncle Matthew in Nancy Mitford’s
The Pursuit of Love, a glossy new adaptation of which will be released in Australia on Amazon Prime Video later this year, with Lily James as Linda Radlett (Nancy’s alter ego), and Dominic West as Uncle Matthew, the “wicked lord of fiction”, who hunts his children on horseback with bloodhounds, and takes tea under the entrenching tool, “still covered with blood and hairs”, with which he “whacked to death eight Germans one by one as they crawled out of a dug-out” in 1915.

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The REAL Pursuit of Love: How Nancy Mitford borrowed from her family's VERY tumultuous love lives


Hamish was a society butterfly and chamismatic - but also gay. 
Nancy's own brother Tom had had a brief schoolboy dalliance with him at Eton, and warned Nancy that the relationship was doomed to fail.
Less than a month after her breakup from Hamish St Clair Eskine, Nancy accepted a rash proposal from Peter Rodd, the son of diplomat Lord Rennell (pictured together on their wedding day) 
After five years of unrequited love and a heartless 'engagement', Hamish brutally broke it off, pretending he'd decided to marry someone else.
Less than a month later, Nancy accepted a rash proposal from Peter Rodd, the son of diplomat Lord Rennell. 

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With The Pursuit of Love, the Mitfords became the Kardashians of their day


With The Pursuit of Love, the Mitfords became the Kardashians of their day
In her hit comic novel, Nancy Mitford reinvented her damaged, despicable family as adorable oddballs – and pioneered 'structured reality'
8 May 2021 • 5:00am
Wishful thinking on a heartbreakingly grand scale: Lily James as Linda in The Pursuit of Love
Credit: Robert Viglasky/BBC
“My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It’s so frightfully good I’ve never bothered to read another.” So says Uncle Matthew in Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, a glossy new adaptation of which begins on BBC One tomorrow, with Lily James as Linda Radlett (Nancy’s alter ego), and Dominic West as Uncle Matthew, the “wicked lord of fiction”, who hunts his children on horseback with bloodhounds, and takes tea under the entrenching tool, “still covered with blood and hairs”, with which he “whacked to death eight Germans one by one as they crawled out of a dug-out” in 1915.

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