Hons and rebels
Mitford, Jessica (, 1917-1996)
Hons and rebels / Jessica Mitford ; introduction by Christopher Hitchens - New York : New York Review Books , 2004, c1960 - 284 p. ; 21 cm - New York Review Books classics .
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 America, where she took part in the civil rights movement and wrote her classic expose of the undertaking business, The American Way of Death . Hons and Rebels is the hugely entertaining tale of Mitford's upbringing, which was, as she dryly remarks, "not exactly conventional. . . "
English
9781590171103
Mitford, Jessica (1917-1996) ---Childhood and youth
England----Biography
92 MIT
Hons and rebels / Jessica Mitford ; introduction by Christopher Hitchens - New York : New York Review Books , 2004, c1960 - 284 p. ; 21 cm - New York Review Books classics .
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 America, where she took part in the civil rights movement and wrote her classic expose of the undertaking business, The American Way of Death . Hons and Rebels is the hugely entertaining tale of Mitford's upbringing, which was, as she dryly remarks, "not exactly conventional. . . "
English
9781590171103
Mitford, Jessica (1917-1996) ---Childhood and youth
England----Biography
92 MIT
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