Hons and Rebels (New York Review Books Classics)

by Christopher Hitchens (Introduction), JessicaMitford (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $21.07

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  Paperback
  1989

  $3.38

  First published in 1960, Jessica Mitford's autobiography is an account of the enclosed and eccentric childhood through which Nancy, Diana, Pam, Unity, Decca and Debo lived. In writing of their upbringing between the wars she also writes of her own commitment to communism and of her elopement to the Spanish Civil War with Esmond Romilly. Jessica Mitford is the author of The American Way of Death and has recently published a biography of Grace Darling entitled Grace had an English Heart .

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  Paperback
  1999

  $12.78

  'Whenever I read the words Peer's Daughter in a headline,' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of you children.' The Mitford family is one of the century's most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy's novels, Diana's marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley, Unity's infatuation with Hitler, Debo's marriage to a duke and Jessica's passionate commitment to communism. Hons and Rebels is an enchanting and deeply absorbing memoir of an isolated and eccentric upbringing which conceals beneath its witty, light-hearted surface much wisdom and depth of feeling.