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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...