Books with author Jessica Mitford

'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline,' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of you children.' The Mitford family is one of the century's most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy's novels, Diana's marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity's infatuation with Hitler, Debo's marriage to a duke and Jessica's passionate commitment to communism. Hons and Rebels is an enchanting and deeply absorbing memoir of an isolated and eccentric upbringing which conceals beneath its witty, light-hearted surface much wisdom and depth of feeling.

We have met the explosive Lord Redesdale before- thinly disguised as General Murgatroyd and Uncle Matthew in the novels of Nancy Mitford. Now another of his daughters has told the whole story of a remarkable family. The Mitford children emerged from an insular, eccentric home into various equally harsh limelights. There was Nancy's success as a writer; the social fame of Tom and Diana (she married first Brian Guinness and later Sir Oswald Mosley); and the political notoriety of Unity, who was admitted to Hitler's circle and was sent back to England mysteriously wounded after the outbreak of war.

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Folio Society 2010. Thick Royal 8to. 267pp. Profuse illustrations from photgraphs. Volume appears unopened and unread, excellent clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind. Excellent in bright gilt lettered dog-tooth patterened cloth, featuring coloured illustration of Mitford family to upper. Also excellent slipcase. Memoir of familial discord, between the communist author Jessica and her Nazi sypathiseing siblings Unity and Diana, friends of Moseley and HItler. Fascinating for reader and collector alike.

'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline,' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of you children.' The Mitford family is one of the century's most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy's novels, Diana's marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity's infatuation with Hitler, Debo's marriage to a duke and Jessica's passionate commitment to communism. Hons and Rebels is an enchanting and deeply absorbing memoir of an isolated and eccentric upbringing which conceals beneath its witty, light-hearted surface much wisdom and depth of feeling.

'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline,' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of you children.' The Mitford family is one of the century's most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy's novels, Diana's marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity's infatuation with Hitler, Debo's marriage to a duke and Jessica's passionate commitment to communism. Hons and Rebels is an enchanting and deeply absorbing memoir of an isolated and eccentric upbringing which conceals beneath its witty, light-hearted surface much wisdom and depth of feeling.