Barbara Cooke receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and is a Research Associate on the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project. Deborah Mitford, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, ...

But the recent publication of Debo Mitford's Wait for Me! (she was the only sister not yet to have written her memoirs) has made me long to get closer to the stories. Nancy's novels, Decca's letters ...

For all that she was the business brains behind the blooming of Chatsworth – particularly the farm shop, one of the most successful in Britain – Debo Mitford’s passion was chickens. She counted them ...

Click here to see a slide show. Today I have an invitation to lunch from a lady who has written several books but claims not to read them. She is the dowager duchess of Devonshire, now 85, known to ...

For once, the title doesn’t oversell it — at least, not when it stays true to the source material. Outrageous lives up to its name, diving into the infamous and sensational lives of the Mitford ...

Deborah Vivien Mitford The youngest daughter, “Debo” (played by Orla Hill), married Lord Andrew Cavendish, who later became the Duke of Devonshire. She also established herself as a writer and public ...