![]() As well as being a novelist and biographer she also translated Madame de Lafayette's classic novel, La Princesse de Cleves, into English, and edited Noblesse Oblige, a collection of essays concerned with the behaviour of the English aristocracy and the idea of 'U' and 'non-U'. She also wrote four works of biography: Madame de Pompadour, first published to great acclaim in 1954, Voltaire in Love, The Sun King and Frederick the Great. ![]() She followed The Pursuit of Love with Love in a Cold Climate (1949), The Blessing (1951) and Don't Tell Alfred (1960). After the war she moved to Paris and she spent the rest of her life in France. I call that a dream, so soft and delicious, too. She started writing before her marriage in 1932 in order 'to relieve the boredom of the intervals between recreations established by the social conventions of her world' and had written four novels before the success of The Pursuit of Love in 1945. Love in a Cold Climate is the sequel to Nancy Mitfords bestselling novel The Pursuit of Love. Apart from being taught to ride and speak French, Nancy Mitford always claimed she never received a proper education. ![]() Her childhood in a large, remote country house with her five sisters and one brother is recounted in the early chapters of The Pursuit of Love (1945), which, according to Mitford, is largely autobiographical. ![]() Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest child of the second Baron Redesdale. ![]()
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