![]() ![]() ![]() Beautiful, brainy, and home-schooled, they emerged with strong characters and set out on very different life courses. ![]() In Britain of the mid-Twentieth Century, there was a family of sisters named Mitford. Spanning the twentieth century, the magically vivid letters of the legendary Mitford sisters constitute not just a superb social and historical chronicle they also provide an intimate portrait of the stormy but enduring relationships between six beautiful, gifted and radically different women who wrote to one another to confide, commiserate, tease, rage and gossip - and above all, to amuse. The Mitfords offers an unparalleled look at these privileged sisters: Nancy, the scalding wit who transformed her family life into bestselling novels Pamela, who craved nothing more than a quiet country life Diana, the fascist jailed with her husband, Oswald Mosley, during World War II Unity, a suicide, torn by her worship of Hitler and her loyalty to home Jessica, the runaway Communist and fighter for social change and Deborah, the genial socialite who found herself Duchess of Devonshire. As editor Charlotte Mosley notes, not since the Brontës have the members of a single family written so much about themselves, or have been so written about. ![]() The great wits and beauties of their age, the Mitford sisters were immoderate in their passions for ideas and people, counting among their diverse friends Adolf Hitler and Queen Elizabeth II, Cecil Beaton and President Kennedy, Evelyn Waugh and Givenchy. ![]()
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