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Article: Corresponding talents
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 19, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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It is surprising that Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh were
friends at all. In 1929, within a year of their meeting, Mitford
was closely involved in the first major crisis of Waugh's life when
her chaperonage of his first wife proved insufficiently vigilant to
prevent She-Evelyn embarking on an affair while He-Evelyn was in
the country writing Vile Bodies. Their friendship received another
setback in 1933, when Mitford married Peter Rodd, a charming but
incorrigibly adulterous wastrel, whom Waugh looked upon with
profound distaste. Apparently unable to profit by experience,
Mitford fell out of this disastrous marriage into the arms of
another energetic womaniser, Colonel Gaston Palewski, ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Nancy Mitford
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;
594 words
...Nancy Mitford 1904-73, English novelist ... and moved to Paris in 1945. Mitford and her six celebrated sisters ... and correspondence with E. Waugh (1997); memoir by H. Acton ... by S. Hastings (1986). Mitford's sister Jessica Mitford ...
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