Village voice

   

    To return to Thursday's post for a moment, Patrick Leigh Fermor mentions Mary Russell Mitford and Our Village in one of his letters to Deborah Devonshire quoted in In Tearing Haste. MRM was a member of the same Northumberland family from which DD (née Mitford) was descended, and she replies with the following aside:

    "When the French Lady⁽ⁱ⁾ wrote Highland Fling⁽ⁱⁱ⁾ Lady Redesdale⁽ⁱⁱⁱ⁾ suggested it should be called Our Vile Age (see?) but Evie^(iv) had just done Vile Bodies so it wasn't."

 

(i) Nancy Mitford

(ii) her first novel, published in 1931

(iii) Mother of NM and DD

(iv) Evelyn Waugh

Comments

[Toffeeapple]

I like that!

I also thorougly enjoyed 'In Tearing Haste'.

[Cornflower]

I'm loving it, too!