The Boston Globe, July 21st, 1987
A TALENT TO ANNOY: Essays, Articles and Reviews 1929-1968, by Nancy Mitford, edited by Charlotte Mosley. Beaufort Books, 217pp. $16.95. Nancy Mitford was a connoisseur of snobbery. She could satirize it because she knew its value -- she was the best kind of snob herself. The oldest of the fabled Mitford sisters, Nancy was a novelist in the first part of her career, a biographer at the end. Throughout her life, she also worked as a journalist. She wrote book reviews, a journal from Paris that makes an interesting complement to Genet's (Janet Flanner's), fragments of autobiography, portraits of ...
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