[Vwoolf] Woolf / Mitford

[Sarah M. Hall]

There’s lots of talk in the UK about the new TV adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love. I posted about it on the VWSGB Facebook page because the first episode featured a character reading Orlando (from which she quoted a line to her dissolute friend), then later Mrs Dalloway. Cover images were cobbled together from Bell’s illustrations for Woolf books.

Philip Ward of The Mitford Society has posted this message underneath my post:

There’s a reference to Woolf in Love in a Cold Climate, the sequel to The Pursuit of Love. Lady Montdore asks Fanny who is this Virginia Woolf she’s heard about from Lord Merlin. Fanny tells her she’s a novelist. Lady M: “As she’s so intellectual, no doubt she writes about nothing but station-masters ... I prefer books about society people”. Whereupon Fanny recommends Mrs Dalloway, “a fascinating book about a society person”.


The Woolf / Mitford link has not gone unnoticed elsewhere. If anyone possesses this book: Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader, ed. Helen Wussow and Mary Ann Gillies (Liverpool UP, 2014), you can find the article ‘ “Drawn from Our Island History”: Virginia Woolf, Nancy Mitford, and the Politics of Pageantry’, by Erica Delsandro.


Sarah M. Hall
Virginia Woolf Society GB

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