Nancy Mitford
Nancy FreemanMitford CBE , known as Nancy Mitford, was an English novelist, biographer and journalist. One of the renowned Mitford sisters and one of the Bright Young People on the London social scene in the interwar years, she is best remembered for her novels about upperclass life in England and France and for her sharp and often provocative wit. She also established a reputation for herself as a writer of popular historical biographies.
The Mitford family dates from the Norman era, when Sir John de Mitford held the Castle of Mitford in Northumberland. A later Sir John held several important public offices during the late 14th and early 15th centuries, and the family maintained a tradition of public service for many generations. In the 18th century William Mitford was a leading classical historian, responsible for the definitive history of ancient Greece. His greatgrandson Algernon Bertram Mitford, born in 1837 and known as Bertie, was a diplomat and traveller who held minor office in Disraelis second ministry, from 1874 to 1880. In 1874 he married Clementina, the second daughter of David Ogilvy, 10th Earl of Airlie, a union that linked the Mitfords to some of Britains most prominent aristocratic families. Blanche Ogilvy, Clementinas elder sister, became the wife of Sir Henry Montague Hozier, a soldier turned businessman. Their four children included daughters Clementine , who in 1908 married the future British prime m
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