“A Ghost or Two Will Prove Invaluable”: Nancy Mitford’s Fabulously Unhinged Guide to Hosting a Country House Christmas

In the ’20s and ’30s, long before she published ‘The Pursuit of Love’, Nancy Mitford contributed to Vogue on a number of occasions—hardly surprising, given her close friendship with Cecil Beaton—but never more successfully than at Christmas, when she shared her thoughts on hosting a harmonious gathering at a country pile. Read her hilarious (and unashamedly out-of-touch) guide, here.