Sisterly
A.N. Wilson, 21 October 1993
Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford
edited by Charlotte Mosley.
Hodder, 538 pp., £20, September 1993,0 340 53784 1 Show More
edited by Charlotte Mosley.
Hodder, 538 pp., £20, September 1993,
“... Mitford’s humour is its preparedness to be cruel. The account in this volume of Alan Lennox-Boyd swelling to twice his normal size because a doctor had mistakenly injected him with elephantiasis would, indeed, make you scream. Here is an other letter which exemplifies her humour: Darling I must describe a visit to the Joneses – the angelic Enid ... ”