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Nancy Mitford

(1904-1973), Writer and biographer

Nancy Freeman-Mitford

Sitter in 25 portraits
The witty depiction English upper class life captured in the novels The Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949) appealed to a post-war public. Mitford received very little formal education, but grew up reading biographies, memoirs and letters. In 1933, she married Peter Murray Rennell Rodd, whom she followed to Perpignan during the Spanish Civil War. Her harrowing experiences working at the French border with Spanish refugee victims moved her to become a socialist. From 1949 she was permanently established in Paris, where she wrote regular articles for the Sunday Times, and historical biographies, including Madame Pompadour (1954) and The Sun King (1966).

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Nancy Mitford

by Francis Goodman
eleven 2 1/4 inch square film negatives, April 1954
NPG x195334

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Nancy Mitford

by Francis Goodman
eleven 2 1/4 inch square film negatives, June 1960
NPG x195335

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Nancy Mitford

by Francis Goodman
twelve 2 1/4 inch square film negatives, June 1960
NPG x195336

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Nancy Mitford

by Francis Goodman
twelve 2 1/4 inch square film negatives, June 1960
NPG x195337

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Nancy Mitford

by Francis Goodman
ten 2 1/4 inch square film negatives, June 1960
NPG x195338

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