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"This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars.
Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy, the eldest, was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; the ethereally beautiful Diana, married to the Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley and imprisoned without trial through most of World War II, was the most hated woman in England; Unity Valkyrie, born in the mining town of Swastika, Alaska, would become obsessed with Adolf Hitler, whom she met on at least 140 occasions.
When war was declared between England and Germany, she shot herself in the head." "The Mitfords had style and presence, and were extremely gifted: four would go on to write best-selling books. Above all, they were funny - hilariously and often mercilessly so. In this wise, evenhanded, and generous book, Mary Lovell captures the vitality and extraordinary drama of a family that took the twentieth century by the throat and became, in some respects, its victims."--BOOK JACKET.
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Biography, Sisters, Aristocracy (Social class), Upper class women, Great britain, biography, Mitford family, Mitford, nancy, 1904-1973, Upper class, Women, biography, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, generalPeople
Jessica Mitford (1917-), Mitford family, Unity Mitford (1914-1948), Nancy Mitford (1904-1973)Places
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Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
2003, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
March 2003, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
March 2003, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
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The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
January 2002, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
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The sisters: the saga of the Mitford family
2002, Norton
in English
- 1st American ed.
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The sisters: the saga of the Mitford family
2002, Norton
in English
- 1st American ed.
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THE MITFORD GIRLS: THE BIOGRAPHY OF AN EXTRAORDINARY FAMILY.
2001, Little Brown
Hardcover
0316858684 9780316858687
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"Sydney Bowles was fourteen years old when she first set eyes on David Freeman Mitford."
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"Sydney Bowles was fourteen years old when she first set eyes on David Freeman Mitford."
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