Nancy Mitford — The Pursuit of Love/Love In a Cold Climate with Laura Thompson
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:
The Pursuit of Love (BBC/Amazon miniseries, 2021)
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
Life in a Cold Climate 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