Mitford family

An English aristocratic family best known for the six Mitford sisters, whose contrasting political commitments, writing, and public lives attracted wide attention.

Nancy Mitford: An English novelist and biographer whose comic novels and essays examined aristocratic manners. Her novels and essay on class established one of the family’s most enduring literary reputations.
The Pursuit of Love: A 1945 comic novel by Nancy Mitford about an eccentric upper-class English family. Its fictional family drew on social worlds and family dynamics familiar from Nancy’s upbringing.
Alfred Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale: A British diplomat, writer, and peer who was the father of the six Mitford sisters. His title and family household formed the aristocratic setting in which the sisters grew up.
British Union of Fascists: A British fascist political organization founded by Oswald Mosley in 1932. Diana Mitford’s support connected the family’s public story to organized British fascism.
Diana Mitford: A British socialite who supported fascism and married British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley. Her political activism and marriage to Mosley brought the family into Britain’s fascist movement.
Love in a Cold Climate: A 1949 novel by Nancy Mitford about love and marriage among the English upper classes. It extended Nancy’s comic portrait of aristocratic society that had made the family a literary subject.
Sydney Bowles: An English aristocrat and the mother of the six Mitford sisters. Her household shaped the sisters’ childhood and the family’s domestic world.
Oswald Mosley: A British politician who founded the British Union of Fascists and married Diana Mitford. His marriage to Diana placed a Mitford sister at the center of Britain’s fascist leadership.
Unity Mitford: A British socialite who became an ardent admirer of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Her public devotion to Hitler became the most notorious episode in the sisters’ political lives.
U and non-U English: A distinction between upper-class and non-upper-class language popularized by Nancy Mitford’s 1954 essay. The essay turned Nancy’s observations of class speech into a national debate.

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