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Author : West Sussex Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Mitford Archives written by West Sussex Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis W. Steer
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 : 9780900801020
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Mitford Archives written by Francis W. Steer and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1970 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : West Sussex Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mitford Archives written by West Sussex Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis William Steer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780900801235
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Mitford Archives written by Francis William Steer and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Francis William STEER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Mitford Archives. A Catalogue Edited by Francis W. Steer. [With Plates, Including Portraits.]. written by Francis William STEER and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mitford family
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Mitford Archives written by Mitford family and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charlotte Mosley
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061375403
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (613 download)
Download or read book The Mitfords written by Charlotte Mosley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mitford sisters were the great wits and beauties of their time. Immoderate in their passions for ideas and people, they counted among their diverse friends Adolf Hitler and Queen Elizabeth II, Cecil Beaton and President Kennedy, Evelyn Waugh and Givenchy. The Mitfords offers an unparalleled look at these privileged siblings through their own unabashed correspondence. Spanning the twentieth century, the magically vivid letters of the legendary Mitfords constitute a superb social and historical chronicle and an intimate portrait of the stormy but enduring relationships between six beautiful, gifted, and radically different women.
Author : Mark Antony Lower
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Worthies of Sussex written by Mark Antony Lower and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary S. Lovell
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748109218
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Mitford Girls written by Mary S. Lovell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A sensational saga' Mail on Sunday 'A cracking read' Lynn Barber, Observer 'Engrossing from beginning to end' Vogue 'Fascinating, the way all great family stories are fascinating' New York Times Book Review Even if the six daughters, born between 1904 and 1920, of the charming, eccentric David, Lord Redesdale and his wife Sydney had been quite ordinary women, the span of their lives - encompassing the most traumatic century in Britain's history - and the status to which they were born, would have made their story a fascinating one. But Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Decca and Debo, 'the mad, mad Mitfords', were far from ordinary.
Author : Nancy Mitford
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175786
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Voltaire in Love written by Nancy Mitford and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Isaac Newton’s revolutionary new physics to France—is a spirited romp in the company of two extraordinary individuals as well as an erudite and gossipy guide to French high society during the Enlightenment. Mitford’s story is as delicious as it is complicated. The marquise was in love with another mathematician, Maupertuis, while she had an unexpected rival for Voltaire’s affections in the future Frederick the Great of Prussia (and later in the philosophe’s own niece). There was, at least, no jealous husband to contend with: the Marquis du Châtelet, Mitford assures us, behaved perfectly. The beau monde of Paris was, however, distraught at the idea of the lovers’ brilliant conversation going to waste on the windswept hills of Champagne, site of the Château de Cirey, where experimental laboratories, a darkroom, and a library of more than twenty-one thousand volumes enabled them to pursue their amours philosophiques. From time to time the threat of impending arrest would send Voltaire scurrying across the border into Holland, but his irrepressible charm—and the interventions of powerful friends—always made it possible for him resume his studies with the cherished marquise.
Author : Jan Karon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143114018
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book At Home in Mitford written by Jan Karon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in large print—the first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon’s beloved series set in America’s favorite small town: Mitford. It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now, stir in a lovable but unloved boy, a mystifying jewel theft, and a secret that's sixty years old. Suddenly, Father Tim gets more than he bargained for. And readers get a rich comedy about ordinary people and their ordinary lives.
Author : Jessica Mitford
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307809390
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The American Way of Death Revisited written by Jessica Mitford and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in "the dismal trade." Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisited confronts new trends, including the success of the profession's lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh's novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb. "Brilliant--hilarious. . . . A must-read for anyone planning to throw a funeral in their lifetime."--New York Post "Witty and penetrating--it speaks the truth."--The Washington Post
Author : Jessica Mitford
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307565661
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Decca written by Jessica Mitford and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Decca” Mitford lived a larger-than-life life: born into the British aristocracy—one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Mitford sisters—she ran away to Spain during the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill’s nephew, then came to America, became a tireless political activist and a member of the Communist Party, and embarked on a brilliant career as a memoirist and muckraking journalist (her funeral-industry exposé, The American Way of Death, became an instant classic). She was a celebrated wit, a charmer, and throughout her life a prolific and passionate writer of letters—now gathered here. Decca’s correspondence crackles with irreverent humor and mischief, and with acute insight into human behavior (and misbehavior) that attests to her generous experience of the worlds of politics, the arts, journalism, publishing, and high and low society. Here is correspondence with everyone from Katharine Graham and George Jackson, Betty Friedan, Miss Manners, Julie Andrews, Maya Angelou, Harry Truman, and Hillary Rodham Clinton to Decca’s sisters the Duchess of Devonshire and the novelist Nancy Mitford, her parents, her husbands, her children, and her grandchildren. In a profile of J.K. Rowling, The Daily Telegraph (UK), said, “Her favorite drink is gin and tonic, her least favorite food, trip. Her heroine is Jessica Mitford.”
Author : Lyndsy Spence
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780752496948
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Mitford Girls' Guide to Life written by Lyndsy Spence and published by History Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. The six Mitford girls were blessed with beauty, wit and talent, yet they led very distinct, cultural lives and not one sister, except for Diana and Unity, shared the same opinion or ideology. Nancy Mitford was the ultimate tease and her talent for mockery reformed the publishing industry in the 1930s and '40s. Indeed, the Mitford girls' popularity provoked Jessica to label it 'The Mitford Industry'. As individuals they exploited their attributes to the best of their abilities, and through difficult times they used laughter as their remedy. Their life experiences, although sometimes maddening, are a lesson to us all. How would the Mitford girls cope with the pressures and turmoil of modern life? Whether it is Pamela's guide to throwing a jubilee party, Nancy's guide to fashion or Diana's tips on how to stay young, this quirky and fact-filled book draws on rare and unpublished interviews and information to answer that question.
Author : Nancy Mitford
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307741397
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Don't Tell Alfred written by Nancy Mitford and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful comedy, Fanny—the quietly observant narrator of Nancy Mitford’s two most famous novels—finally takes center stage. Fanny Wincham—last seen as a young woman in The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate—has lived contentedly for years as housewife to an absent-minded Oxford don, Alfred. But her life changes overnight when her beloved Alfred is appointed English Ambassador to Paris. Soon she finds herself mixing with royalty and Rothschilds while battling her hysterical predecessor, Lady Leone, who refuses to leave the premises. When Fanny’s tender-hearted secretary begins filling the embassy with rescued animals and her teenage sons run away from Eton and show up with a rock star in tow, things get entirely out of hand. Gleefully sending up the antics of mid-century high society, Don’t Tell Alfred is classic Mitford.
Author : Laura Thompson
Publisher : Head of Zeus
ISBN 13 : 9781784970895
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Take Six Girls written by Laura Thompson and published by Head of Zeus. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire. They were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah. Born into country-house privilege in the early years of the 20th century, they became prominent as 'bright young things' in the high society of interwar London. Then, as the shadows crept over 1930s Europe, the stark – and very public – differences in their outlooks came to symbolize the political polarities of a dangerous decade. The intertwined stories of their stylish and scandalous lives – recounted in masterly fashion by Laura Thompson – hold up a revelatory mirror to upper-class English life before and after WWII.
Author : Mary S. Lovell
Publisher : Time Warner Books UK
ISBN 13 : 9780349115054
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Mitford Girls written by Mary S. Lovell and published by Time Warner Books UK. This book was released on 2002 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MITFORD GIRLS tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as any novel: Nancy, whose bright social existence masked an obsessional doomed love which soured her success; Pam, a countrywoman married to one of the best brains in Europe; Diana, an iconic beauty, who was already married when at 22 she fell in love with Oswald Moseley, the leader of the British fascists; Unity, who romantically in love with Hitler, became a member of his inner circle before shooting herself in the temple when WWII was declared; Jessica, the family rebel, who declared herself a communist in the schoolroom and the youngest sister, Debo, who became the Duchess of Devonshire.This is an extraordinary story of an extraordinary family, containing much new material, based on exclusive access to Mitford archives.
