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.