How a daughter of one of England’s most storied families ended up on the other side of the world—and the political ...

Occasionally a small group of previously unremarkable people erupt and conquer the world: the Macedonians, the Romans, the British, the Japanese, the Brontë sisters. The Mitford family in the early ...

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

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Imagine, if you will, being the one son within the Mitford family. A lone male, surrounded by those six ...

Jessica Mitford Played by Zoe Brough and known as “Decca” to the family, this sister embraced communism. She eloped with British socialist and journalist Esmond Romilly and participated in the Spanish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They were one of the most notorious families to ever live in Britain – and yet many people remain unfamiliar with the story of the Mitford sisters. Now, they're being brought to life in the new ...

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 ...

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 ...