The gravestone of Nancy Mitford, Church of St. Mary the Virgin at Swinbrook
The Hon. Nancy Freeman-Mitford, CBE (28 November 1904, London - 30 June 1973, Versailles), was a novelist and biographer, one of the "Bright Young Things" on the London social scene in the inter-war years. She was born at 1 Graham Street (now Graham Place) in Belgravia, London, the eldest daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Lord Redesdale. She is best known for her series of novels about upper-class life in England and France, particularly the four published since 1945; but she also wrote four well-received, well-researched popular biographies (of Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire, and Frederick the Great). She is one of the noted Mitford sisters and the first to publicise the extraordinary family life of her very English and very eccentric family, giving rise to a "Mitford industry" which continues to roll on.
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Location: Church of the Virgin at Swinbrook, Oxfordshire, UK
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