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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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How Pursuit of Love author and sisters really were to the manor born

Perhaps the real stars of the new BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love are the sumptuous stately homes where the action takes place as ANNABEL VENNING reveals.

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Who wrote the book The Pursuit of Love? | Great British Life

In 1933 Nancy married Peter Rodd and they set up home in London. Although she painted a picture of wedded bliss, in reality they were an ill-suited couple and Rodd was openly unfaithful. Sadly, Nancy also suffered two miscarriages. Eventually the couple separated and later divorced in the 1950s.
Facing sadness in her personal life, Nancy concentrated on two further novels:
Wigs on the Green (1935) and
Pigeon Pie (1940). She also edited two volumes of historical correspondence:
The Ladies of Alderley (1938) and
The Stanleys of Alderley (1939). As a novelist, Nancy’s first four books didn’t attract great attention, but her fifth –

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