Good night, sweet Lady

A magazine and the Mitfords

I was sorry to read about the closure of The Lady magazine, although it frankly seems a miracle that it has lasted so long.

I am not one of those English people who longs to preserve emblems of Englishness simply for the sake of it: the slow death of the traditional pub causes me anguish, and I slightly miss Bath Olivers, but I cannot romanticize the su…