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Playboys and fallen women: the wild aristocrats who inspired The Pursuit of Love
Nancy Mitford s novel, freshly adapted for the BBC, drew heavily on her social circle – and in particular her own eccentric family
10 May 2021 • 10:06am
The Pursuit of Love s Lord Merlin (Andrew Scott, centre) was inspired by Gerald Berners
Credit: Robert Viglasky/BBC
When it comes to novel The Pursuit of Love – a new adaptation of which began on BBC One last night, written and directed by Emily Mortimer – the description that springs to mind is “larger than life”. Ironic, then, that Nancy Mitford’s famous tragicomic satire of English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War was in fact drawn closely from reality. Her dazzling and deranged characters are loosely disguised portraits of the blue-blooded circles in which she and her infamous sisters mixed.
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