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Loved Ones (book)

1985 book by Diana Mosley

Summary

1985 book by Diana Mosley

Field	Value
name	Loved Ones
image	Dianamosleylovedones.jpg
caption	Cover of Loved Ones
author	Diana Mosley
country	United Kingdom
language	English
genre	Memoirs
publisher	Sidgwick & Jackson
release_date	1985
media_type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages	224
preceded_by	The Duchess of Windsor
followed_by	The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters

Loved Ones is a 1985 collection of pen portraits by Diana Mosley. It was published by Sidgwick & Jackson. In 2008, three of the portraits were republished in the collection, The Pursuit of Laughter.

Synopsis

The book includes pen portraits of leading figures that featured prominently in Mosley's life. These include Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington, former neighbours and friends of hers. Violet Hammersley, an author, close friend of her mother's and prominent figure in childhood. The writer, Evelyn Waugh a friend. Professor Derek Jackson, a leading physicist and her former brother-in-law. Lord Berners, a friend she stayed with often at Faringdon House. Prince and Princess Clary, friends of hers after the Second World War. The final portrait is of her second husband, Sir Oswald Mosley. The book also features several photographs of the selected subjects.

Reception

The collection was favourably reviewed by The Glasgow Herald, describing Mosley as ″consistently witty in a generous way that indulges neither in sarcasm nor bitterness and her book contains gems of ever-so-English understatement and Mitfordese snobbery.″

Cover illustration

This illustration features a detail from Henry Lamb's portrait of Mosley, painted in 1932 when she was still married to Bryan Guinness.

References

Mosley, Diana. (1986). "Loved Ones". Sidgwick & Jackson.
(September 2024). "OBITUARY: The Hon Lady Mosley". The Times.
[http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0114/1231738221830.html Controversial opinions and catty humour prevail in aristocrat's writings] Irish Times. 14 January 2009
[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19850401&id=Su89AAAAIBAJ&sjid=10gMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4584,83575 Lady Mosley reflects on some old and favourite friends] 1 April 1985

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