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How a little Mayfair bookshop inspired Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love
Having almost given up writing, Nancy Mitford joined Heywood Hill bookshop, turning it into a literary salon that inspired her greatest work
Heywood Hill bookshop in Mayfair, beloved by the Queen
The year is 1936: Jesse Owens embarrasses the Third Reich at its own Olympics, Edward VIII ascends the throne and Heywood Hill, a little bookshop on Curzon Street in Mayfair, opens its doors for the first time. Named after the proprietor George Heywood Hill, an Old Etonian who married the daughter of the Earl of Cranbrook, the bookshop initially specialised in first and limited editions as well as Victorian toys, with most of its clientele aristocrats due to its affluent location.
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When The Pursuit of Love came out in 1945, Evelyn Waugh noted in his diary: “Nancy has written a novel full of exquisite detail of Mitford family life”. Nancy Mitford never found a muse to match her own family. Even later, when she came to write historical biography, starting with her acclaimed Madame de Pompadour, she couldn’t help turning it into a breed of memoir: “I do love it. They were all exactly like ONE,” she wrote in a letter.