5/21/2023 0 Comments Love in a cold climate book![]() The aristocrats at Downton Abbey are portrayed as being nowhere near as obnoxious as many of them at that time actually were. Somehow I trust Nancy Mitford in her picture of the upper class more than Julian Fellowes. Hers is a much less humane, wickedly humorous, look at the aristocracy from the inside. ![]() Nancy Mitford was born into one of those aristocratic families in England but her view is entirely different from that of the writer of Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes. I figured that Downton Abbey was precisely calibrated to please those of today’s upper class who might still contribute money to public television, but I enjoyed it anyway. I watched and delighted in Downton Abbey as much as anyone else, tuning in each week to watch the adventures of the supremely aristocratic Crawley family and their household staff. ![]() ‘Love in a Cold Climate’ by Nancy Mitford (1949) – 256 pages ![]()
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