![]() ![]() Nancy and her siblings had an eccentric childhood, which revolved around the somewhat arbitrary rules their mother imposed on them: they were banned from eating certain foods they had to be rinsed in cold water after their baths windows were to be left open all year round, no medicines of any kind were allowed. He was largely overshadowed by his sister’s exploits and would later be killed in action in Burma in 1945. ![]() Nancy would eventually have five sisters - Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah - and one brother, Tom. In 1914, he and his wife, Sydney Bowles, moved their growing family to Asthall Manor near Swinbrook in Oxfordshire. Her father, David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, the second Baron Redesdale, worked at The Lady magazine. Nancy Mitford was born in London in 1904. Nancy was the eldest of the six Mitford sisters, most of whom courted controversy in one way or another, and was considered one of the “Bright Young Things” on the London scene of the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to her two most successful novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, she also wrote several other works of fiction as well as historical biographies, magazine articles, and essays. She was best known for her novels depicting upper-class life in England, often with satirical and provocative humor. Nancy Mitford (Novem– June 30, 1973) was a British novelist, journalist, and biographer. ![]()
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