Mitford

‘The Bolter’ In the novels of the British writer Nancy Mitford, it’s a nickname given to the narrator’s mother, a serial monogamist who cycles through relationships.

The museum's collection also includes an 1847 photo of author Mary Mitford's dog.

This was the case with the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Russell Mitford, a then-established chronicler of rural English life almost 20 years Browning’s senior.

Nancy Mitford appears to have initially had that attitude toward fascism herself.

The English journalist Jessica Mitford, in her letters, said that the slogan for her funeral would be “brevity followed by levity.”