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_a92 MIT _2 |
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_aMitford, Jessica _d(, 1917-1996) |
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_aHons and rebels _c/ Jessica Mitford ; introduction by Christopher Hitchens |
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_aNew York _b: New York Review Books _c, 2004, c1960 |
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_a284 p. _c; 21 cm |
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| 490 | 1 | _aNew York Review Books classics | |
| 520 | _aJessica 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. . . " | ||
| 546 | _aEnglish | ||
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_aMitford, Jessica _d(1917-1996) _x-Childhood and youth |
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_aEngland _v--Biography |
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| 700 | 1 | _aHitchens, Christopher | |
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