Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Nancy Mitford

Nancy Mitford
This nomination predates the introduction in April 2014 of article-specific subpages for nominations and has been created from the edit history of Today's featured article/requests. 
 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/April 7, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 15:37, 31 March 2014‎ (UTC)



Nancy Mitford (1904–1973) was an English novelist, biographer and journalist,   the eldest of the renowned Mitford sisters and one of the "Bright Young People" of London's inter-war years. Although mainly remembered for her witty accounts of upper-class life, she also established a reputation as a writer of popular historical biographies. The eldest daughter of the 2nd Baron Redesdale, she published her first book in 1931, but  it was her two semi-autobiographical postwar novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, that established her reputation. During the 1950s she was identified with the concept of "U" (upper) and "non-U" language as a determinant of  social standing; she had intended this as a joke, but thereafter  many considered Mitford  an authority on manners and breeding. Her later years were bitter-sweet, the success of her biographical studies of Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire and King Louis XIV contrasting with the ultimate failure of her personal relationships. From the late 1960s her health deteriorated, and she endured several years of painful illness before her death in 1973.


 * There hasn't been a writer biography for a while (?since Kafka), and I don't remember a woman writer on the main page for ages. So I reckon that Nancy is worth a pop. Brianboulton (talk) 11:42, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. There has been one more recent—H.C. McNeile on 28 September 2013—but that is certainly long enough ago not to affect this. - SchroCat (talk) 21:20, 24 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Support a woman writer in a quality article, - I just remembered Kafka on my talk, before seeing this ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:26, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support YAY for a woman writer, BOO for the second time in as many months that we're putting up the blue heritage plaque for a mainpage TFA image (as we had to do with Hattie Jacques) because of a non-sensically fascistic NFC policy.--ColonelHenry (talk) 22:01, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, high quality article on this deceased female journalist. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 02:59, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
 * "journalist!!" – how she would have hated that! But your words and thought are kind. Brianboulton (talk) 15:58, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh,, I learned that about her from the first sentence of the article: "Nancy Freeman-Mitford CBE (28 November 1904 – 30 June 1973), known as Nancy Mitford,[n 1] was an English novelist, biographer and journalist." &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:18, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah, "novelist, biographer and journalist", rather than journalist. But I admit I rather walked into that one! Brianboulton (talk) 18:25, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Ah okay no worries. Excellent quality improvement effort. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:31, 28 March 2014 (UTC)