![]() An instant best-seller in the UK, the book, which TIME’s reviewer praised in 1946 for how it “plays on the surface of life so wittily and deftly,” cast a gimlet eye on an aristocracy-one that included the author’s family, who notoriously spanned the political spectrum of the time-struggling to acclimate to a new social order. This is the tumultuous, if still enviable, backdrop for the three-part miniseries The Pursuit of Love, an adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s classic novel from writer-director-actor Emily Mortimer that comes to Amazon on July 30. Such newfangled ideas as careers for aristocratic men and formal education for their future wives scandalized the older generations. Rich Europeans had infiltrated high society. The monarchy faced threats from communism on the left and fascism on the right. But by the time the Great War wrapped up, the country’s professional class was ascendant, progressive social movements were gaining steam and the aura of God-given superiority that surrounded people who could trace their lineage back to the Norman conquest was starting to dissipate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, sure, they had a good run through the Victorian era. ![]()
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