Nancy Mitford VI

Linda finds him attractive and realises that her feelings for her 2 husbands were not very strong. He offers her a flat and though she protests that she has to go back home, she accepts it. Davey and Lord Merlin visit her to see if she is all right, and promise not to tell her parents that she is living with a French lover. War breaks out and Linda decides to stay in Paris because Fabrice has a job in Military intelligence and is not at the Front. He tells her if it becomes dangerous he will get her out of France. After several months of happiness with him, she has to go home and goes back to London to her own small house. Dunkirk happens and she is desperately worried. Then one day Fabrice turns up and they spend some time together but he has to return to France. After Dunkirk, Fanny and her children, and Louisa both go to Alconleigh, to live with the Radletts. Alfred is in the army, and Fanny goes up to London to get his equipment. She visits Linda who refuses to go home and rarely even leaves her house as she wants to stay close to Fabrice. Her daily help looks after her but Fanny is worried when Linda tells her she's pregnant again. She asks the daily lady to phone her if anything happens.

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Nancy Mitford V

The Alconleighs are upset by his running away, though Uncle Matthew is not too angry about it, as he admires him for being active at soemthing, especially for fighting. Linda has become an ardent Communist, and supports her husband's beliefs. Polly's baby is due, and when the child is born it dies almost immediately. Fanny goes to see her and finds that she seems indifferent about the baby's death. Cedric and Lady Montdore come to visit and patch up the quarrel... and Fanny realises that Boy is very pleased to be friendly with Lady Montdore, and that Cedric is taking an interest in this new friend. Lady Montdore seems to be a little in love with Cedric herself but she is not aware of his true sexuality, and does not notice the young men he gives jobs to at Hampton. Lady Montdore makes up with Polly, but Polly has by now moved on, and has become friendly with the DUke of Paddington, whose ancestor is the subject of Boy's latest book.. He is an older man and soon he is in love with Polly... and she leaves Boy to marry him while Cedric takes up with BOy. We learn in another Mitford book that Polly loses her looks but is happy.. and that Lady Montdore dies just before the war, having been persuaded by Cedric to have plastic surgery. He becomes the Earl, but goes abroad when the war breaks out, which annoys the local gentry and he leaves England. Linda's husband Christian decides to go to France, to work with Spanish refugees and Linda joins him. When she gets there, she does her best to do welfare work, and meets Lavender Davis, her old neighbour at home, who is now a welfare worker. Soon she realises that Christian has fallen out of love with her and is now closer to Lavender..... She leaves the South of France, leaving a letter for her husband, and goes back to Paris, but her ticket is out of date and she cannot get back to Engalnd. while she is sitting at the station, crying, she meets a middle aged, well dressed Frenchman who speaks English, and he takes her to lunch. He tells her that his name is Fabrice and that he is a duke, and well off.

Nancy Mitford Part IV

Linda leaves her husband having fallen in love with Christian Talbot, a left wing but upper class man. Fanny worries that Linda has made a mistake again, as Christian, while a good man, is not interested in personal relationships and wont give Linda the love that she craves. Fanny enjoys Cedrics company, but she is happy leading a quiet life with her husband and 2 children... Then Polly and Boy decide to come back to England. She is pregnant and he is writing a book about an English duke, and they open up their house, Silkins and go to live there. Fanny realises that Polly is no longer in love with Boy, and Davey tells her that Boy is now getting interested in boys rather than girls. Fanny is shocked, but goes on with her life. Lady Montdore has become a dropper in to her little house, and she does not have the toughness to snub her. Then Matt the younger son of Lord Alconleigh runs away from school to go to fight in Spain on the Red side.

Nancy Mitford Novels Part III

Polly comes to stay at Alconleigh, after a big row with her mother, who insists that she will be cut out of her father's will. Polly says that Boy has a small income and that Lord Montdore cannot leave her Hampton, so she does not care about the money. Lady Montdore is furious. Davey talks to Boy and learns that he is not really keen on marrying Polly, that he flirted with her as a young girl and did not realise that he had made her fall for him. Polly and Boy marry and go to live abroad where its cheaper. Lady Montdore is very lonely without Boy and Polly, but she takes an interest in Cedric Hampton, who is a Lord Montdores cousin and heir, He is flamboyantly gay, and becomes fond of Lady Montdore and Fanny.

Nancy Mitford Part II

Fanny marries Alfred Winsham and they move to a small house in Oxford. Linda's marriage goes wrong almost immediately, she finds Tony's middle class ways irritating and he finds her frivolity annoying. She becomes pregnant, and has a daughter Moira, but she does not care for the child. Fanny is soon pregnant, and sees less of Linda, who is living in London and busy with a social life. Meanwhile, Polly's romantic life takes a strange twist. Her mother is a bossy domineering woman who has been having an affair with Boy Dougdale, a writer, who is married to Lord Montdore's sister. Boy is a writer about the upper classes and a snob. He also likes young girls. Then Lady Patricia, his wife, dies. Boy has always been an unfaithful husband, but Patricia had been loyal to him. To everyone's horror, Polly proposes to Boy, and they get engaged. He does not really wnat to marry her and he knnows that it will causes a terrible rift between him and his ex mistress and sister in law, but Polly is beautifyl and he is a snob, and he cannot extricate himself.....

Nancy Mitford novels

Nancy's 2 best known novels are covering the same time period and some of the same characters. The chief character is Linda Radlett, and her cousin, Fanny Logan is the narrator of the book. Fanny is her cousin, mousier and duller than the lively eccentric Radletts. Linda believes in love and longs to be be grown up and to marry. When she comes out, she is not very successful at finding a husband. She has taken a certain interest in the arts, so as to fit in with the arty upper class set but her father is a backwoods peer who lives in the country and doesnt approve of education for girls. Fanny has had a better education, having been brought up by her spinster aunt, and is more modern minded than the Radletts. She falls in love with Alfred Winchman an Oxford don, who is intelliget and kind, and who has very little money. Polly Hampton is the only child of Lord and Lady Montdore, who have served the crown in India.... she is very beautiful, but seems rather dull and shy. Linda meets Tony Kroesig, the son of a wealthy banker, of German origin, and falls in love with him. Her parents dont like the marriage, neither do his and he is sent to America. However, in the end, the young couple are determined and get married.