As a result, his numerous daughters “manage to bridge gulfs of ignorance with charm and high spirits and odds and ends of knowledge they’ve picked up.” They communicate in babyish private slang, form secret societies, and hide away in a walk-in linen cupboard in the massive country house they’re not allowed to leave-a recipe for a magical childhood, possibly, but not for psychologically healthy adults. (Photo: Robert Viglasky/Amazon Studios)Īn early adopter of unschooling, Uncle Matthew doesn’t believe that girls should be educated. Fanny (Emily Beecham) in The Pursuit of Love. The show hints that he suffers from PTSD from World War I, but also asks us to believe that his boorishness is amusing rather than abusive. Uncle Matthew-the racist, sexist, xenophobic patriarch of the Radlett family-“would have been sent to prison for beating” his children had he not been rich. Much of what passed for eccentricity in 1930s England would be probably be correctly diagnosed as inbreeding-induced mental illness today.
Often celebrated-or dismissed-as archetypal “eccentric aristocrats,” the Mitfords were neither as charming nor as harmless as they might seem at first glance. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper. The story of the Radlett family-a fictionalized version of the Mitfords-has been adapted for television before as a package deal with its companion novel Love in a Cold Climate, but it stands alone for the first time in this tight three-part series. Nancy Mitford, the literary sister, drew on her childhood memories to write The Pursuit of Love, published in 1945. Linda (Lily James) in The Pursuit of Love, (Photo: Robert Viglasky/Amazon Studios)įamous for being famous, and sometimes notorious, the six Mitford sisters have gone down in history as interwar Kardashians, posh socialites who are most interesting when they’re behaving badly.
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