How a daughter of one of England’s most storied families ended up on the other side of the world—and the political spectrum—from her parents and infamous siblings.
Carla Kaplan’s biography “Troublemaker” focuses on the fierce political commitments of the journalist best known for “The ...
MIAMI -- Middle children in large families tend to be attention-seekers. In the 1930s, Unity and Jessica Mitford, respectively Nos. 5 and 6 of the seven offspring of the minor English aristocrat Lord ...
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 ...
“Compilations of correspondence are necessarily biographies of a kind—biographies of individual consciousness with less intrusive mediation and interpretation than one finds in a traditional biography ...
The six British sisters are the subject of a new Britbox series. In 1989, Jessica Mitford talked with Terry Gross about her relationship with the Communist Party and her book about the death industry.
THE TRIAL OF DR. SPOCK, THE REV. WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR., MICHAEL FERBER, MITCHELL GOODMAN, AND MARCUS RASKIN by Jessica Mitford. 272 pages. Knopf. $5.95. In May 1968, Boston was the scene of a long ...