Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford

Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford

Eugenia Malmains is one of the richest girls in England and an ardent supporter of Captain Jack and the Union Jackshirts; Noel and Jasper are in search of an heiress; Poppy and Marjorie are nursing lovelorn hearts; and beautiful bourgeois Mrs Lace is on the prowl for someone near Eugenia's fabulous country home at Chalford, and much farce ensues.

An intoxicating mix of pretty absurditites and farce * Time Out *
Revel in a slice of arcadian 30s silliness, preserved, as it were, in aspic...there are still plenty of jokes that raise loud, unforced laughter 75 years on...a satire on marriage, and a clear-eyed on at that * Guardian *

Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest child of the second Baron Redesdale. Her childhood in a large remote country house with her five sisters and one brother is recounted in the early chapters of The Pursuit of Love (1945), which according to the author, is largely autobiographical. Apart from being taught to ride and speak French, Nancy Mitford always claimed she never received a proper education. She started writing before her marriage in 1932 in order 'to relieve the boredom of the intervals between the recreations established by the social conventions of her world' and had written four novels, including Wigs on the Green (1935), before the success of The Pursuit of Love in 1945. After the war she moved to Paris where she lived for the rest of her life. She followed The Pursuit of Love with Love in a Cold Climate (1949), The Blessing (1951) and Don't Tell Alfred (1960). She also wrote four works of biography: Madame de Pompadour, first published to great acclaim in 1954, Voltaire in Love, The Sun King and Frederick the Great. As well as being a novelist and a biographer she also translated Madame de Lafayette's classic novel, La Princesse de Clèves, into English, and edited Noblesse Oblige, a collection of essays concerned with the behaviour of the English aristocracy and the idea of 'U' and 'non-U'. Nancy Mitford was awarded the CBE in 1972. Charlotte Mosley lives in Paris and has worked as a publisher and journalist. She is the editor of Love From Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters and In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor.

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ISBN 13	9780141047461
ISBN 10	0141047461
Title	Wigs on the Green
Author	Nancy Mitford
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2010-03-04
Number of pages	192
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