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If you're a loyal viewer of Downton Abbey as am I, the article suggests several books relating to Edwardian and wartime England. I'm on the waiting list for Jessica Fellowe's book and a few others.
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The British melodrama "Downton Abbey" is already the darling of American public television. Now it has become a marketing tool for booksellers and publishers hoping to tap into the passion of the show's audience.
Publishers are convinced that viewers who obsessively tune in to follow the war-torn travails of an aristocratic family and its meddling but loyal servants are also literary types, likely to devour books on subjects the series touches.
Downton Abbey makes me want to revisit the Mitfords. Sybil's pretty spot-on for Jessica, and I can see Mary being a Nancy, even if she's not nearly as witty.
Downton Abbey makes me want to revisit the Mitfords. Sybil's pretty spot-on for Jessica, and I can see Mary being a Nancy, even if she's not nearly as witty.
The Mitford book mentioned in the article is one that I ordered.
Are the Mitfords you speak of, the series of books on people in Ohio? The library book sale had a lot of those. Have you read them all? Are they really good? What other books could you compare them with? I know, 20 questions .
People who like Downton Abbey might enjoy Edith Wharton's books.
She was born into the upper echelon of American society, traveled extensively (eventually settling in France), and used her superb writing skills to illustrate the hypocrisy, social-climbing and general ups and downs of the privileged set.
In 1921, she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, for The Age of Innocence.
Her last book, The Buccaneers (actually unfinished at the time of her death), had a character who, as a governess, kept herself afloat in the world of the affluent by taking care of wealthy young American girls and later helping to negotiate their marriages to titled Englishmen.
Masterpiece Theater produced a pretty good adaptation of The Buccaneers.
Are the Mitfords you speak of, the series of books on people in Ohio? The library book sale had a lot of those. Have you read them all? Are they really good? What other books could you compare them with? I know, 20 questions .
The Mitfords were sisters who grew up in an aristocratic English family around the same time that Downton Abbey is set. They all lived colorful lives--Nancy was a writer, Diana married a Guinness, then left him for the head of the British Fascists, Unity was a close friend of Hitler, Jessica was a communist and ran away from home, and Deborah is the current Duchess of Devonshire. More: Masterpiece Theatre | Love in a Cold Climate | Essays + Interviews | The Mitford Sisters There are dozens of books by and about the Mitfords. Nancy wrote Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love, which are fiction, but give a glimpse into what life was like post-WWI.
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