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Availability:In StockContributor:Jessica Mitford, Christopher Hitchens (Introduction by)Series:New York Review Books ClassicsPublish date:2004-09-30Pages:284
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590171103ISBN-10:1590171101UPC:9781590171103Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Women, Personal MemoirsSize:8.10 x 5.22 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCYF944RTV
Hons and Rebels
Jessica Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary English aristocratic family. Her sisters included Nancy, doyenne of the 1920s London smart set and a noted novelist and biographer; Diana, wife to the English fascist chief Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, who fell head over in heels in love with Hitler; and Deborah, later the Duchess of Devonshire. Jessica swung left and moved to...
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590171103ISBN-10:1590171101UPC:9781590171103Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Women, Personal MemoirsSize:8.10 x 5.22 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCYF944RTV
Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) was the daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale, and she and her five sisters and one brother grew up in isolation on their parents' Cotswold estate. Rebelling against her family's hidebound conservatism, Mitford became an outspoken socialist and, with her second cousin and husband-to-be Esmond Romilly, ran away to fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Romilly was...
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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