The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters Between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952–73

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Collected mid-twentieth–century correspondence between the author of The Pursuit of Love and her former employer, the celebrated London bookseller.Nancy Mitford was a brilliant personality, a remarkable novelist and a legendary letter writer. It is not widely known that she was also a bookseller. From 1942 to 1946 she worked in Heywood Hill’s famous shop in Curzon Street, and effectively ran it when the male staff were called up for war service. After the war she left to live in France, but she maintained an abiding interest in the shop, its stock, and the many and varied customers who themselves form a cavalcade of the literary stars of post-war Britain. Her letters to Heywood Hill advise on recent French titles that might appeal to him and his customers, gossip engagingly about life in Paris, and enquire anxiously about the reception of her own books, while seeking advice about new titles to read. In return Heywood kept her up to date with customers and their foibles, and with aspects of literary and bookish life in London. Charming, witty, utterly irresistible, the correspondence gives brilliant insights into a world that has almost disappeared.Praise for The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street“This volume of letters between [Nancy Mitford], then living in Paris, and G. Heywood Hill (1907–1986) is like a glass of champagne, from a good year, at a quiet garden party. It’s a beautiful day, one is among friends—but not too many—and laughter reigns.” —The New Criterion
Copyright:
2014

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
192 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781781011638
Related ISBNs:
9780711225664
Publisher:
Quarto Publishing Group USA
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Copyrighted By:
John Saumarez Smith
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
John Saumarez Smith

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