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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps the least scandalous of then Mitford sisters, Deborah (or “Debo”) would grow up to become the Duchess of Devonshire and the chatelaine of Chatsworth House, which she managed to change from ...

1. With anecdotes and observations both uproarious and awful, Jessica Mitford’s memoir fascinates readers with the isolated, underparented and “not exactly conventional upbringing” she and her ...

In 1965, Thelma Sweetinburgh from WWD’s Paris bureau visited Nancy Mitford at her home on the Left Bank’s Rue Monsieur, shortly after the publication of Mitford’s book “Don’t Tell Alfred.” “There is ...

Jessica Mitford was famous for several reasons. One reason was her investigative books, including her best-known one, "The American Way Of Death," published in 1963. It revealed how the funeral ...