 Cover ofLoved Ones | |
| Author | Diana Mosley |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoirs |
| Publisher | Sidgwick & Jackson |
Publication date | 1985 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| 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 byDiana Mosley. It was published bySidgwick & Jackson.[1][2] In 2008, three of the portraits were republished in the collection,The Pursuit of Laughter.[3]
The book includes pen portraits of leading figures that featured prominently in Mosley's life. These includeLytton Strachey andDora 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 atFaringdon House. Prince and Princess Clary, friends of hers after theSecond World War. The final portrait is of her second husband, SirOswald Mosley. The book also features several photographs of the selected subjects.[1]
The collection was favourably reviewed byThe 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.″[4]
This illustration features a detail fromHenry Lamb's portrait of Mosley, painted in 1932 when she was still married toBryan Guinness.[1]