In twentieth-century Britain, the Mitford name became entangled with the rise of European fascism. On October 6, 1936, the ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Nancy Mitford’s semi-autobiographical novels, including the classic The Pursuit of Love, may be ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." As a muckraker with what she admitted was a particularly strong “appetite for tracking and destroying the ...
READING about intrepid reporters never gets old. Intrepid people in general, really, though as often as not they come to us in the form of journalists like Jessica Mitford, an English aristocrat and, ...
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 ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." As a muckraker with what she admitted was a particularly strong “appetite for tracking and destroying the ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When Time magazine named her America’s “Queen of the Muckrakers” in 1970, Jessica Mitford was delighted.