Mitford

In an update of Nancy Mitford's 'Noblesse Oblige', The Telegraph has this handy guide, entitled,  “What type of RP do you speak?”

Nancy Mitford, I think, would have loved it, and written a wonderful letter to Evelyn Waugh about it!

Investigative journalist Jessica Mitford died more than 14 years ago, but in true muckraking style, she simply refuses to go away.

In 1973, Mitford accepted a position at San Jose State University, detailing the experience in an essay in the Atlantic Monthly.

You may not be able to change the world,” [Jessica Mitford] once quipped, “but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Chatted as to doing illustration for a catalogue for Mitford, and as to his Japanese woman, and a decorated room for the Museum.

Miss Mitford, in one of her charming sketches, tells us of a cricket-ball being thrown five hundred yards.

"He mentioned that he was coming to England by that boat," replied Miss Mitford.

Clinton alludes to Mitford's effect upon him in his Journal.

I must sketch him for you; but only Miss Mitford could do him justice.