The Mitford sisters never really go anywhere—they are all dead, so perhaps a difficult task. After close to a century of tabloid features on one or all six of them, the youngest and last surviving ...

A look back at WWD's coverage of the Mitford family and Bright Young Things crowd throughout the years. In 1965, Thelma Sweetinburgh from WWD's Paris bureau visited Nancy Mitford at her home on the ...

Michelle Gable’s “The Bookseller’s Secret” is her new novel about author Nancy Mitford, whom she greatly admires. “I’ve been a longtime Nancy Mitford fan but became obsessed with the entire Mitford ...

Waugh set his tale among people and events he knew well: the Bright Young Things of pre-World War II England, whose lives were a boozy round of parties and assignations, at country houses, weekend ...

In 1928, Evelyn (pronounced Evil in) Arthur St. John Waugh (rhymes with raw) leaped, like a literary commando, out of nowhere and, establishing a beachhead in that dismal waste land which Poet T. S.

Seeking something light to read following the Christmas doldrums I decided to look into what I remembered as one of the funniest of Evelyn Waugh’s comic novels, Black Mischief. I discovered that my ...

In 1965, Thelma Sweetinburgh from WWD’s Paris bureau visited Nancy Mitford at her home on the Left Bank’s Rue Monsieur, shortly after the publication of Mitford’s book “Don’t Tell Alfred.” “There is ...