First published in 1960, this gloriously anarchic memoir of the
eccentric Mitford family in the 1920s and 30s still makes good
reading. The fifth of six good-looking, strong-minded sisters,
Jessica became a Communist (Unity was Hitler's favourite, Diana
married Oswald Mosley, and Debo married a duke), ran away with
Esmond Romilly, and lived a precarious existence in the United
States till 1939, when Esmond left to enlist in the RAF; he was
killed in 1941. Jessica eventually remarried and became a
passionate supporter of the Civil Rights movement. It is a joy to
rediscover Farve, and Muv, and to visit again the Hons' Cupboard.
Witty, outrageous, spontaneous and youthfully exuberant, it is now
also a poignant testament to this extraordinary woman who died in
July. (Kirkus UK)
First published in 1960, Jessica Mitford's autobiography is an
account of the enclosed and eccentric childhood through which
Nancy, Diana, Pam, Unity, Decca and Debo lived. In writing of their
upbringing between the wars she also writes of her own commitment
to communism and of her elopement to the Spanish Civil War with
Esmond Romilly. Jessica Mitford is the author of "The American Way
of Death" and has recently published a biography of Grace Darling
entitled "Grace had an English Heart".
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