|
Reading Albert Barnes
|
Laura Knowles Sunday News Correspondent Albert C. Barnes, one of
the most controversial figures in the art world, is about to acquire
new fame on stage. The man, whose vast collection of modernist art
rivals some of the world's greatest museums, is the subject of a new
play by Gretna Theatre Artistic Director Will Stutts, an actor
nationally noted for his one-man plays. An art collector, inventor
and educator, Barnes lived from 1872 to 1951. His intriguing
disciple, Violette de Mazia, served as director of education at the
Barnes Foundation near Philadelphia for 38 years, until her death in ...
|
THE LETTERS OF NANCY MITFORD AND EVELYN WAUGH, by Charlotte Mosley; Houghton Mifflin (527 pages, $40).(Originated from Knight-Ridder/Tribune)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ``The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh'' is a record of...Charlotte Mosley, is a trove for Mitford and Waugh fans. The letters are a...more celebrated of the two writers, Mitford holds her own in the correspondence...
|
|
GOOD AND BAD FROM NANCY MITFORD
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Articles and Reviews 1929-1968, by Nancy Mitford, edited by Charlotte Mosley...Books, 217pp. $16.95. Nancy Mitford was a connoisseur of snobbery...fact it is dead." At her best, Nancy Mitford had a way of noting the facts that...
|
|
Nancy pursued . . . and caught This Life of Nancy Mitford captures the real woman at last, says her previous biographer Selina Hastings
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford, a Portrait of a Contradictory...book, a life of Nancy Mitford, and so, human nature...says, who released in Nancy "the wonderful capacity...its portrayal of Nancy Mitford the writer. Laura Thompson...
|
|
Nancy Mitford: a biography.
Magazine article from: National Review
; Nancy Mitford: A Biography by SelinaHastings (Dutton...Love and Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford's two most famous (and highly autobiographical...Hastings's book is that she makes Nancy Mitford's life as entertaining as her novels...
|
|
Nancy Mitford. Madame de Pompadour.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
; ...940322-65-X. Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford is as much a cultural icon as a work of history. Mitford, a British aristocrat born in 1904...Devonshire. Foreman attempted to resuscitate Mitford's reputation by emphasizing her love...
|
 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
|
How could the Mitford girls have hated a place like this? INSPIRATION: Nancy Mitford drew on Asthall Manor for her Alconleigh SLEEPY SWINBROOK: But life in the village was far from happy for the Mitford children Nancy, Diana, Tom and Pamela, on the wall, and Unity, Jessica and Deborah in front pictured with their parents there in 1934.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...so-competitive siblings, the Mitford Girls. Nancy and Jessica, Diana and Unity...looit exhibited each and every Mitford book had a pink and cheerful look...her, having been left to the Mitford family by the innsprevious owner...
|
|
Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh.
Magazine article from: The Atlantic
; The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh edited by Charlotte...Houghton Mifflin, 531 pages, $40.00. Mitford's niece by marriage, Charlotte Mosley...prejudices can get much pleasure from the Mitford-Waugh letters. Reading them is rather...
|
|
|
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Atlantic
; The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh edited by Charlotte...Houghton Mifflin, 531 pages, $40.00. Mitford's niece by marriage, Charlotte Mosley...prejudices can get much pleasure from the Mitford-Waugh letters. Reading them is rather...
|
|
The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today
; Nancy Mitford, Evelyn Waugh. Charlotte Mosley, ed...The three hundred letters from Nancy Mitford and the two hundred from Evelyn Waugh...probably far less interesting than Waugh and Mitford made them seem. The two did have their...
|
|
|
Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Atlantic
; Love From Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford edited by Charlotte Mosley. Houghton...544 pages, $35.00. Nancy Mitford, witty novelist, biographer of...British tax collector could suppress Mitford's love of malicious gossip or...
|
Find more facts and information related to the
article "Reading Albert Barnes"
