![]() ![]() Her waspish 1950s guide to U or Non-U (U being upper class) laid bare the words that betray our class origins, and instilled terror in the aspirational post-war middle classes who wrote to her in their hundreds asking if she thought they were common or not. Yet despite his best efforts, Nancy went on to become one of the most successful writers of the 20th century. ![]() ![]() The eldest of the six Mitford sisters, the daughters of Lord Redesdale, the girls received no formal education their father was convinced that schools gave women nothing except large calf muscles and poor manners. Nancy Mitford was fond of saying, ‘Talk about what you know, and you won’t get so angry.’ Her family were less inclined to agree, though, when she mined her eccentric upper-class upbringing for her many novels. ![]()
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