Nancy Mitford — The Pursuit of Love/Love In a Cold Climate with Laura Thompson

Nancy Mitford, photographed by Cecil Beaton

Nancy Mitford, photographed by Cecil Beaton

Joining us from the UK this week is New York Times bestselling-writer Laura Thompson, author of the Nancy Mitford biography Life In a Cold Climate and the Mitford sisters biography The Six. Mitford’s semi-autobiographical novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate are outrageously funny, as well as bitingly perceptive social satires of the British upper class. All the true Hons out there are sure to adore this episode!

Discussed in this episode:

Bright Young Things

The Pursuit of Love (BBC/Amazon miniseries, 2021)

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

Laura Thompson

Life in a Cold Climate by Laura Thompson

The Six by Laura Thompson

Rex V Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders by Laura Thompson

Thompson-Bywater murder of 1922

E.M. Delafield Lost Ladies of Lit episode

Thomas Hardy

George Eliot

David Sedaris

Amy Sedaris

Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford

Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford

Gaston Palewski

Oswald Mosley

Harry Styles

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