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- Nancy Mitford was born on November 28, 1904 in London, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Love in a Cold Climate (2001), Count Your Blessings (1959) and The Little Hut (1957). She was married to Peter Rodd. She died on January 30, 1973 in Versailles, France.
- SpousePeter Rodd(December 4, 1933 - 1957) (divorced)
- RelativesPam Mitford(Sibling)Deborah Cavendish(Sibling)Tom Mitford(Sibling)Diana Mosley(Sibling)Jessica Mitford(Sibling)Unity Mitford(Sibling)
- Acid wit
- Teasing, tongue-in-cheek humor
- Satirical novels
- One of "The Mitford Girls". Sister of Pamela Mitford (1907-1994), Tom Mitford, Lady Diana Mosley (widow of Sir Oswald Mosley), Unity Mitford (a friend of Adolf Hitler), Jessica Mitford, and Deborah Cavendish.
- In early 1939, her husband, Peter Rodd, left for the South of France in order to join the relief organizations trying to help the thousands of Spanish refugees fleeing General Franco's armies in the final stages of the Spanish Civil War. Later in the year, she joined him, spending several weeks there employed as a relief worker. The experience greatly affected her, and encouraged her to become a committed anti-fascist.
- She was offered the opportunity work in Hollywood as a screenwriter, but declined because it would have meant spending a substantial amount of the year away from Paris. She did, however, make uncredited revisions to the screenplay for Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).
- Spent most of her adult life living in Paris.
- Second cousin of Rupert Mitford, and Clementine Churchill.
- The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
- I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
- To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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