MITFORD, Nancy.

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Madame de Pompadour. First edition, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Miss Elliot Lynch, with best wishes from Nancy Mitford". This marks Mitford's first venture into biographical writing. Mitford (1904-1973) moved to Paris, after the success of her novels The Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949), where she wrote and published Madame de Pompadour.The historian A. J. P. Taylor wrote in the Manchester Guardian: "All who admired The Pursuit of Love will be delighted to hear that its characters have appeared again, this time in fancy dress. They now claim to be leading figures in French history, revolving round Louis XV and his famous mistress, Madame de Pompadour. In reality they still belong to that wonderful never-never land of Miss Mitford's invention".

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