![]() ![]() would probably have been removed from their roaring, raging, whacking papa and sent to an approved home”. ![]() In The Pursuit of Love (1945) and its sequel Love in a Cold Climate (1949), they become the Radletts, a feral pack of aristocratic imps who, “had they been poor children. ![]() (It is worth noting that Pam – who spent much of her childhood impersonating a horse, became John Betjeman’s muse, married a bisexual and then, late in life, settled down as a lesbian – is still agreed to be the “boring” one.) The real Uncle Matthew was Nancy’s father, Lord Redesdale, or “Farve”, progenitor of the much-written-about Mitford brood: Diana, the fascist Unity, the even more fascist Jessica, the communist Deborah, the duchess Tom, the forgotten-but-also-fascist son Nancy, the novelist and Pam, the housewife. ![]() It’s so frightfully good I’ve never bothered to read another.” So says Uncle Matthew in Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love, a glossy new adaptation of which started on BBC One last Sunday, with Lily James as Linda Radlett (Nancy’s alter ego), and Dominic West as Uncle Matthew, the “wicked lord of fiction”, who hunts his children on horseback with bloodhounds, and takes tea under the entrenching tool, “still covered with blood and hairs”, with which he “whacked to death eight Germans one by one as they crawled out of a dug-out” in 1915.Īs in art, so in life. “My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. ![]()
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