The Mitford Girls

by Mary S. Lovell

  Collier, Peter and Horowitz, David, The Kennedys (Secker & Warburg, 1984).

  Cowles, Virginia, Looking for Trouble (Hamish Hamilton, 1941).

  Dalley, Jan, Diana Mosley (Faber and Faber, 2000).

  Dalton, Hugh, The Fateful Years (Frederick Muller, 1957).

  Davie, Mark, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976).

  Devonshire, Duchess of, The House (Macmillan, 1982). The Estate (Macmillan, 1990).

  Durr, Virginia Foster, Outside the Magic Circle (University of Alabama Press, 1990).

  Graham, Sheilah, Beloved Infidel (Cassell, 1933).

  Guinness, Bryan, Singing out of Tune (Putnam, 1933). Dairy Not Kept (Compton Press, 1981).

  Guinness, Jonathan and Catherine, The House of Mitford (Hutchinson, 1984).

  Halle, Kay, The Young Unpretender (Heinemann, 1971).

  Hanfstaengl, Ernst (‘Putzi’), Hitler, the Missing Years (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957).

  Hastings, Selina, Nancy Mitford (Hamish Hamilton, 1985).

  Hillier, Bevis, Young Betjeman (John Murray, 1988).

  Holroyd, Michael, Lytton Strachey (Chatto & Windus, 1994).

  Ingram, Kevin, Rebel - The Life of Esmond Romilly (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985).

  Lees-Milne, James, Another Self (Hamish Hamilton, 1970).

  Ancestral Voices (John Murray, 1975).

  Caves of Ice (John Murray, 1983).

  A Mingled Measure (John Murray, 1994).

  Ancient as the Hills (John Murray, 1997).

  Through Wood and Dale (John Murray, 1998).

  Deep Romantic Chasm (John Murray, 2000).

  Leslie, Anita, Cousin Randolph (Hutchinson, 1985). The Gilt and the Gingerbread (Hutchinson, 1981).

  Lewis, Jeremy, Cyril Connolly (Cape, 1997).

  Lockhart, Sir Robert Bruce, Diaries (Macmillan, 1973).

  Lycett-Green, Candida (ed.), John Betjeman - Letters (Methuen, 1990).

  Mitford, Jessica, Hons and Rebels (Victor Gollancz, 1960).

  The American Way of Death (Simon & Schuster, 1963).

  A Fine Old Conflict (Michael Joseph, 1977).

  Poison Penmanship (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1979).

  Kind and Unusual Punishment (Knopf, New York, 1973).

  Faces of Philip (Heinemann, 1984).

  Mitford, Nancy, Wigs on the Green (Butterworth, 1935).

  The Pursuit of Love (Hamish Hamilton, 1947).

  Love in a Cold Climate (Hamish Hamilton, 1949).

  The Blessing (Hamish Hamilton, 1951).

  Noblesse Oblige (Hamish Hamilton, 1956).

  Don’t Tell Alfred (Hamish Hamilton, 1960).

  The Water Beetle (Hamish Hamilton, 1962).

  Mosley, Charlotte, Love from Nancy - The Letters of Nancy Mitford (Hodder & Stoughton, 1993).

  Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (Sceptre, 1996).

  A Talent to Annoy (Beaufort Books, New York, 1986).

  Mosley, Diana, A Life of Contrasts (Hamish Hamilton, 1977).

  Loved Ones (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985).

  The Duchess of Windsor (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980).

  Mosley, Nicholas, The Rules of the Game (Secker & Warburg, 1982).

  Beyond the Pale (Secker & Warburg, 1983).

  Mosley, Sir Oswald, My Life (Nelson, 1970).

  Murphy, Sophia, The Mitford Family Album (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985).

  Nicholson, Harold, Diaries and Letters, 3 vols (Collins, 1970).

  Powell, Violet, Five out of Six (Heinemann, 1960).

  Pryce-Jones, David, Unity Mitford (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976).

  Quennell, Peter, The Marble Foot (Collins, 1976).

  Ravensdale, Irene, In Many Rhythms (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953).

  Redesdale, Lord, Memories, 2 vols (Hutchinson, 1915).

  Romilly, Esmond, Boadilla (Macdonald, 1938).

  Skidelsky, Robert, Oswald Mosley (Macmillan, 1975).

  Soames, Mary, Clementine Churchill (Cassell, 1979).

  Soames, Mary (ed.), Speaking for Themselves: The Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill (Doubleday, 1998).

  Speer, Albert, Inside the Third Reich (Sphere Books, 1975).

  Sykes, Christopher, Evelyn Waugh (Collins, 1975).

  Trevor-Roper, H.R., Hitler’s Table Talk (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953).

  Toynbee, Philip, Friends Apart (MacGibbon and Kee, 1954).

  Zeigler, Philip, Diana Cooper (Hamish Hamilton, 1981).

  1 See family tree, page x.

  2 Nancy’s spelling, but in the OED it is given as ‘chub’.

  3 Later Lord Longford.

  4 Because Idden and Rudbin are more memorable names (than Ann and Robin) I have referred to them by these nicknames throughout the book.

  5 Hitler’s adjutant.

  6 This was either a bluff or some nonsense of Decca’s.

  7 Through his mother Churchill could trace unbroken descent through five generations from a lieutenant who served in George Washington’s army.

  8 Gaelic: informal gathering for singing, dancing and story-telling.

  9 For the benefit of overseas readers, it is customary in the UK for peers to sign only their surname.

  10 Their old groom, Hooper.

  11 Lebensraum = ‘room to live’: Hitler’s defence of his attacks on neighbouring countries.

  12 Redesdale motto: God Careth For Us.