Carla Kaplan’s biography “Troublemaker” focuses on the fierce political commitments of the journalist best known for “The ...

In their time, the daughters of the second Baron Redesdale, better known as the Mitford sisters, were an industry. Their trade, for the most part, was their mere existence — swanning about British ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University. Jessica Mitford was famous for several reasons. One reason was her investigative books, including her ...

Jessica Mitford was a muckracking journalist and memoirist, radical activist and wit. Born to an English aristocratic family, she became a Communist and eloped with Winston Churchill’s nephew to fight ...

Journalist and limousine-radical Mitford (1917–1996) gets her due in this breezy and thoroughly researched biography. From a classically colorful English family of women—including Nancy, the novelist, ...

DAUGHTERS AND REBELS (284 pp.)—Jessica Mitford—Houghton, M/ffif/n ($4). The English are said to dearly love a lord, and the second Lord Redesdale is there to prove that they dote on a dotty ...

A graphic episode from Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me. Mimi Pond is a cartoonist and graphic novelist whose previous works include Over Easy and The Customer Is Always Wrong. Zohran Mamdani Is ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Nancy Mitford’s semi-autobiographical novels, including the classic The Pursuit of Love, may be ...