The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family

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Authors: Mary S. Lovell
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Women
(magazine) 16, 506
Venice 141, 454, 461
Versailles, treaty of 310
Victoria Road, London 33
Vile Bodies (Evelyn Waugh) 110, 112, 113
Vogue 107
Voltaire in Love (Nancy Mitford) 453, 454

Wagner, Gauleiter 285, 288, 296, 298, 299
Wagner, Winifred 185
Walker, Doris see Brin, Doris
Wall Street Crash 108
Wannsee, Lake 206, 207
Washington DC 302–3, 319, 337, 365–9
Washington Post 335, 337
Water Beetle, The (Nancy Mitford) 472–3
Watney, Oliver (‘Togo’) 96
Watson, Peter 69–70
Waugh, Evelyn 22, 168, 397, 444, 445, 451, 452, 469; bases character on Peter Rodd 152; friendship with and feelings for Diana 109–10, 111–12; marriage 108, 109; Brideshead Revisited 68, 395; The Loved One 407; Vile Bodies 110, 112, 113
Webb, Beatrice138–9
Webb, General 126–7
Week 401
‘Weenie’, Aunt see Bailey, Dorothy
West, Rebecca 90
Weymouth, Henry 68
Whistler, James McNeill 126
White Fang (Jack London) 16
Whitey, Miss see Hussey, Miss
Whitfield, Mr 482
Whyte, Lady Maude 86
Widemann, Erich 206
Wigs on the Green (Nancy Mitford) 168–70, 188, 193, 196–7, 330
Wilde, Dolly 202
Wilde, Oscar 70
Windsor, Duchess of 502–3
Windsor, Duke of, formerly Edward VIII 204, 215–16, 249; Mosleys and 502, 504
Wollner, Senator 266, 268
Wootton Lodge 200–1, 212, 213–14, 216, 273, 289, 320
World War I 33–7, 38, 44, 45, 91, 92, 119, 206, 323
World War II 295–399; food shortages 341; Hitler enters France 316; Japan and USA enter war 347; London and 288–9, 300, 301–2, 330–1, 389–90
Wrede sisters 290
Wright, Margaret 312, 399–400

Yale University 494
Yorke, Henry 108
Young, Alan 136
Ypres 35–6

*For the benefit of overseas readers, it is customary in the UK for peers to sign only their surname.

*Lebensraum = ‘room to live’: Hitler’s defence of his attacks on neighbouring countries.

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