Volume 41, Number 4 · February 17, 1994
Love and Friendship
By Gabriele Annan
Love From Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford
edited by Charlotte Mosley
Houghton Mifflin, 538 pp., $35.00
When Nancy Mitford started on her first biography, a life of Madame de Pompadour, she found it difficult to imagine who her readers would be. So she asked her friend Evelyn Waugh to 'just put on a P.C. the name of a typical reader—he whom I should be out to entertain without irritating.' He suggested two friends to whom a number of letters in this collection are addressed:
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