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Emily Mortimer on her father’s advice: You can be anything as long as you are not boring We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Ginny Dougary Normal text size Advertisement Emily Mortimer grew up with the Mitfords, in a manner of speaking. In the white, 1930s house with its pale-green slate roof in Turville Heath on the edge of the Chiltern Hills – which her father, the late QC and Rumpole of the Bailey writer, John Mortimer, had inherited from his blind barrister father, Clifford – there would be frequent talk about that eccentric fami...

The Pursuit of Love director Emily Mortimer has spoken about adapting Nancy Mitford's novel for the BBC.

As research for my novel, The Manningtree Witches, I read dozens of accounts of women (and some men, but mainly women) accused of maleficium, or witchcraft, in 16th- and 17th-century Europe. These accounts are touchingly formulaic: they begin with a woman, usually poor, often past marriageable age, visited by the devil, who offers his power in return for her soul. They are an invaluable resource for understanding the dimensions of women’s lives at this time in history. Their concerns are limited, domestic. And so, most often, are their alleged transgressions. They sour milk and dirty laund...