Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford

[archersangel]

from amazon;Jessica Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary English aristocratic family. Her sisters included Nancy, doyenne of the 1920s London smart set and a noted novelist and biographer; Diana, wife to the English fascist chief Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, who fell head over in heels in love with Hitler; and Deborah,

Comments

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I had heard of Jessica Mitford and Nancy Mitford, and it just never occurred to me that they were related, let alone that there was such a big family of eccentrics (with way too much fascism in the mix)!

[calzephyr77]

I read The American Way of Death and another one of her books when I was a teenager. They were pretty fascinating. I remember when I found out that the whole family was a bit strange (to say the least). It feels like one of those things that you can't make up and the truth is much stranger than fiction.