Abstract
When writing of Lord Berners, it is virtually de rigueur to invoke Nancy Mitford’s portrait of him as ‘Lord Merlin’ in her delectable novel, The Pursuit of Love: he was an artist and a musician himself, and the patron of all the young. … Modern music streamed perpetually from [his estate] Merlinford … his astonished neighbors were sometimes invited to attend such puzzlers as Cocteau plays, the opera ‘Mahagonny’, or the latest Dada extravagances from Paris. … As Lord Merlin was a famous practical joker, it was sometimes difficult to know where the jokes ended and culture began. I think that he was not always perfectly certain himself.
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