The bolter the pursuit of love6/27/2023 Accept, for a start, the absolute glamour of the set of Mitford sisters, who seemed able to write their own destinies in their childhood and never deviate from them: Diana, the beauty Unity, the fascist who became an intimate of Hitler's Nancy, the writer Jessica, the communist who ran away to the Spanish Civil War Deborah, the Duchess and Pamela, who 'wanted to be a horse'.ĭespite all the elegant brio of her style, Nancy's letters reflect her deep dissatisfaction with the unyielding stuff of reality. Accept it, and it is a wonderful fantasy, rich in escapist possibilities. Look at it too closely, and it breaks down into the cold destructiveness of snobbery. You have to be prepared to close your eyes, to dive backwards, to find any joy in the fairytale romance and elitist humour of her work. That sense she had of nothing interesting being in front of her gave her charm a closed, brittle air. And a similar charge could be levelled at Nancy herself. She 'belonged to the late Twenties, that period now deader than the dodo,' she wrote of the Bolter in The Pursuit of Love. NANCY MITFORD seemed like a creature of another time, long before her death in 1973.
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