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	History News Network
		Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire and the sole surviving Mitford, talks to John Preston about some of their more surprising revelations.
		Deborah Mitford is the last of the Mitford sisters.
		All around her, on steel shelves stretching from floor to ceiling, are files containing letters the Mitford sisters wrote to one another.
	hnn.us /roundup/comments/42441.html (550 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mitford sisters (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Mitfords were an aristocratic British family noted for their accomplishments in writing and their notorious lives, particularly of the daughters of the family, known as the Mitford sisters.
		The eldest of the seven children of David Mitford and Sydney Bowles, Nancy was born in London in 1904.
		She is one of the noted Mitford sisters, was an essayist in, and editor of, Noblesse Oblige[?] (1956), in which she helped to originate the famous 'U', or upper-class, and 'non-U' classification of linguistic usage and behavior.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mitford-sisters (355 words)

	Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford - Book Reviews - Books - Entertainment
		Mitford was born into the English aristocratic Freeman-Mitford family in 1917.
		Nancy became a hugely successful novelist; Diana married the infamous fascist Oswald Mosely; Unity was an intimate of Hitler and shot herself at the outbreak of war; Deborah became the Duchess of Devonshire.
		Hers was a vivid life, spanning eight decades of the 20th century, in a world as far from her family and cultural roots as the moon.
	www.smh.com.au /news/book-reviews/decca-the-letters-of-jessica-mitford/2006/12/19/1166290519347.html (829 words)

	Mitford, Nancy - Search View - MSN Encarta
		They might now seem written for the very social milieu that they mock were it not for the sophistication of their writing and the convincing characterizations of lords and ladies, many of whom were based on real people.
		Deborah Mitford, the youngest sister, married the son of a duke and became the duchess of Devonshire.
		Pamela Mitford led the most conventional life; she married a physicist and lived in the English countryside.
	encarta.msn.com /text_701702267__1/Mitford_Nancy.html (578 words)

	Mitford, Nancy - MSN Encarta
		In her novels of the 1930s Mitford wrote wittily about the bright young things of the time.
		Mitford also wrote a number of well-received biographies, including Madame de Pompadour (1954), Voltaire in Love (1957), The Sun King (1966), and Frederick the Great (1970).
		Jessica Mitford, on the other hand, supported leftist causes and went to Spain to help the Republican side in their battle against fascism during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701702267/Mitford_Nancy.html (540 words)

	Those Mitford Girls
		Deborah Mitford is the last of the Mitford sisters.
		The youngest of the Mitford girls, Deborah was brought up at the family home in the Cotswold village of Swinbrook until she was 16.
		Deborah may not have discovered Elvis until she was in her sixties, but once smitten there was no holding her back - another symptom, perhaps, of the Mitford sisters' tendency towards hero-worship.
	p210.ezboard.com /Those-Mitford-Girls/ftheworldatwar70879frm1.showMessage?topicID=1254.topic (2579 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Nancy Mitford
		Mitford provided a glossary of terms used by the upper-classes (looking glass, bike and napkin are all ‘u’ and mirror, cycle and serviette are all non ‘u’) and her essay evoked a national debate about English class-consciousness and snobbery.
		Nancy was born in 1904 in London, the eldest of the six Mitford sisters.
		Nancy Mitford’s eight novels published between 1931 and 1960 are written with characteristic wit and hyperbole and exhibit her love of an elaborate ‘tease’.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5020 (533 words)

	Chatsworth
		However, he was killed in action in Belgium in 1944, and she died in a plane crash in 1948.
		His younger brother Andrew became the 11th Duke, and he married Deborah Mitford, one of the "Mitford girls" and thus sister to Nancy Mitford and Unity Mitford.
		The Duchess of Devonshire (Deborah Mitford) is very active in promoting the estate and increasing its visitor income.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Chatsworth.html (420 words)

	Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford - Book Reviews - Books - Entertainment
		Born in 1917, Decca Mitford was the fifth of the six daughters of Lord Redesdale, an English peer of no distinction and small means.
		Deborah's choice was happier and more conventional but was in accord with the Mitford habit of going to the top: she married the Duke of Devonshire.
		Mitford's letters include glimpses of the Kennedys, LBJ and Ladybird Johnson, the Clintons, Princess Margaret, Gore Vidal, John Kenneth Galbraith, Julian Huxley.
	www.theage.com.au /news/book-reviews/decca-the-letters-of-jessica-mitford/2007/01/26/1169594483165.html (1003 words)

	Mitford girl dies - smh.com.au
		Diana was born the fourth of seven children of David Mitford, the 2nd Baron Redesdale, part of an extraordinary family that has made news for half a century.
		Unity Mitford was an ardent Nazi sympathiser before the war and a friend of Hitler, whom she introduced to Diana.
		Deborah, the surviving sister, married one of Britain's senior aristocrats and is Duchess of Devonshire, mistress of Chatsworth, one of the finest houses in England.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/08/13/1060588429959.html?from=storyrhs (896 words)

	Queen of the Muckrakers ~ Pacific Interment Mortuary & Crematory ~ Emeryville & San Francisco, California
		Mitford died three years ago at 78, but she continued to toy with SCI to the end.
		Mitford, who headed an East Bay civil rights group, was questioned by the government during the McCarthy era about her communist leanings.
		Among other causes, Mitford supported the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1960's, opposed the UC loyalty oath and was part of a sit-in at the Berkeley campus intended to pressure the regents into divesting investments with companies doing business with South Africa.
	www.interment.com /articles/queen.html (934 words)

	Counting My Chickens . . .: And Other Home Thoughts
		The Duchess of Devonshire is of course the youngest of the 6 Brilliant Mitford sisters born early in the twentieth century, and she is the only surviving one now.
		There have been better memoirs of the Mitford family, and better writing, but I have never seen a memoir of the latest Ducehss of Devonshire and given her acheivements and interests I think one is long overdue.
		Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire, shows to the world the emotional warmth and range of interests which have endeared her to her family and friends for over eighty years.
	www.lincolnvscadillac.com /books/book.php?isbn=0374130299 (701 words)

	Boston.com / Travel / Great and lordly legacy preserved in public
		Deborah, the youngest of the storied Mitford sisters, is the only one of the six still living.
		The Honorable Deborah Mitford was not on track to become duchess.
		That left the duke's second son, Andrew, and his wife, Deborah, to take on the title and the huge responsibility that includes caring for 13 acres of roof, much of it leaking when they rolled up their sleeves after the 10th Duke's death in 1950.
	www.boston.com /travel/articles/2004/08/08/great_and_lordly_legacy_preserved_in_public?pg=2 (528 words)

	Mitford family
		The Mitfords were an aristocratic British family noted for their accomplishments in writing and notorious lives, particularly of the daughters of the family, known as the Mitford sisters.
		Nancy Mitford (November 28, 1904 - June 30, 1973).
		Thomas Mitford (January 2, 1909 - March 30, 1945).
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/m/mi/mitford_family.html (180 words)

	Deborah Mitford: Beauty Icon on Style.com
		One stellar example: Deborah, the duchess of Devonshire.
		Youngest of the six famous (often notorious) Mitford sisters, Debo's marriage to the 11th Duke of Devonshire put her squarely into the social whirl, and for a few years she gamely did the cocktails-and-ball-gown circuit.
		But her heart lay more with family, farm, and the demands of Chatsworth, her husband's grand ancestral estate, where she knocks about the legendary gardens and stables in a Balmain couture raincoat and, often, in the company of her granddaughter, the lanky supermodel Stella Tennant.
	www.style.com /beauty/icon/022504 (267 words)

	elvis memorabilia
		The Duchess known as Debo was probably one of the of the Mitford girls.
		Deborah may not have discovered Elvis until she was in her sixties but once smitten there was no holding her back - another symptom perhaps of the Mitford sisters' tendency towards adore.'I turned on the telly one day and there was a programme about him.
		Deborah may not have discovered Elvis until she was in her sixties but once smitten there was no holding her approve - another symptom perhaps of the Mitford sisters' tendency towards hero-worship.'I turned on the telly one day and there was a create by mental act about him.
	elvis-memorabilia.elvisblogs.com (1942 words)

	SphereSoft.NET - aStore - The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But whether adored or reviled by their public, all the Mitford sisters were engaged with (and at times embodiments of) the major social and political issues of their time.
		The Mitfords' stories have been told over and over again, but British biographer Lovell, utilizing previously unseen documents, explores the relationships between the sisters--two of whom (Diana and Debo) still live--and presents the utter "fun" of this privileged but madcap family.
		At the heart of the biography is Unity Mitford, who was obsessed with Adolf Hitler and widely rumored to be his mistress.
	astore.amazon.de /spheresoft-21/detail/0393324141 (422 words)

	Roncesvalles: The Waffling Warrior as a Chiropractor
		Diana Mitford (The Honourable Lady Mosley) died at the age of 93 as one of the many elderly victims of the heat wave that struck Europe in summer 2003 and with which the French had been evidently unable to cope.
		Deborah, consecutively The Honourable Deborah Freeman-Mitford, Lady Andrew Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, Duchess of Devonshire and Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, is the last surviving one of the famous Mitford sisters.
		First, the mere fact that the odious Mitford was the second baron of his line ought to have warned you that pretensions of antiquity in the case of the British so-called aristocracy are greatly inflated.
	editrixblog.blogspot.com /2006/08/waffling-warrior-as-chiropractor.html (4931 words)

	CVCO - Overbooked: The Mitford Family Booklist
		Mitford's most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, " satirize British aristocracy in the '20s and '30s through the amorous adventures of the Radletts, an exuberantly unconventional family closely modeled on Mitford's own.
		The Duchess of Devonshire is the youngest of the Mitford siblings, the brood that includes writers Nancy and Jessica.
		The Mitfords were one of the 20th century's most intriguing and controversial families--glamorous, romantic, and--especially in politics--extreme.
	www.overbooked.org /booklists/subjects/themes/mitfords.html (857 words)

	BBC News \| ENTERTAINMENT \| In pursuit of public love
		Mitford and her dashing sisters sound themselves like characters out of an overblown novel.
		Nancy Mitford died in 1973, and two of her sisters survive.
		Diana is in her 90s and lives in Paris, while Deborah is the current Duchess of Devonshire.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/1150201.stm (713 words)

	The myth of the Mitfords \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Mary S Lovell's group portrait, The Mitford Girls, has gone through eight reprints in two years, and the Hons Cupboard, where the girls whiled away winter afternoons in the family house, is as much a part of upper-class English literary folklore as Brideshead Revisited or Anthony Powell's Kenneth Widmerpool.
		Deborah (born 1920), meanwhile, quietly married the future Duke of Devonshire and settled down to await her destiny as the chatelaine of Chatsworth.
		Amid all the tributes to her pretty wit and elegant turn of phrase, it cannot be too often stated that this was a woman who thought Hitler was a good man who meant well, and could never be got to alter that judgment.
	www.guardian.co.uk /britain/article/0,2763,1018309,00.html (963 words)

	Toronto Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Mitfords were an aristocratic British family who achieved contemporary notoriety for their controversial and stylish lives as young people, and later for their very public political divisions between communist and fascist.
		The Mitford sisters (and their one brother) grew up in an aristocratic country house set-up not unusual for its time, with emotionally distant parents, a large household with many servants, and a disregard for formal education.
		The daughters were the subject of a song, "The Mitford Sisters", by Luke Haines, and a musical "The Mitford Girls" by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin.
	www.torontopost.biz /Info/?Mitford_family (672 words)

	vanessarosa: LITT Research Questions
		Pamela Mitford was born in 1907 and at the age of four she had caught Poliomyelitis, which was a frightening disease that could leave you dead or crippled.
		Diana Mitford was born in 1910, and married Bryan Guiness at the age of 18 (Rubin, 298).
		Deborah was married to Lord Andrew Carendish, in 1941, and they had three children Emma, Peregrine, and Sophia (Lovell).
	caxton.stockton.edu /vanessarosa/researchquestions (3066 words)

	Senior Women Web > Culture & Arts > Culture Watch
		Jessica Mitford, well-known author of The American Way of Death and other muckraking works, emigrated to the United States in the late 40's where she lived in California, working for workers and the poor.
		Youngest of the sisters, Deborah's husband Andrew became Duke of Devonshire after his elder brother was killed in the war.
		At first Andrew and Deborah were to have a small house next to his military post, and before her marriage, she wrote her sister Diana: "Think how nice it will be to have as many dear dogs and things as one likes without anyone saying they must get off the furniture.
	www.seniorwomen.com /ca/cw/02/cult040402.html (903 words)

	Unity Mitford - MedPort-Lexikon
		Unity und ihre zwei Jahre ältere Schwester Diana Mitford wurden Anhägerinnen faschistischer Ideen.
		Unity Mitford ging 1933 nach Nürnberg, um an einem Parteitag der NSDAP teilzunehmen.
		Der Britische Geheimdienst SIS stellte 1936 in einem Bericht fest, dass Mitford viel Zeit mit Hitler verbringe, wenn er sich in München aufhielt.
	www.medport.de /lexikon/index.php/Unity_Mitford (574 words)

	Mitford family
		The Mitford family was an aristocratic British family noted for their accomplishments in writing and notorious lives, particularly of the Mitford sisters.
		Nancy Mitford (November 28, 1904 - June 30, 1973)
		Unity Valkyrie Mitford (August 8, 1914 - May 28, 1948)
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Mitford_sisters.html (80 words)

	NY times Obit -Robert Treuhaft>
		Miss Mitford, who was known as Decca and who died in 1996, dedicated the work to her husband with gratitude for "his untiring collaboration."
		She was one of the blue-blooded Mitford sisters, a daughter of Lord Redesdale and sister to Nancy, the novelist; to Diana, who married Sir Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader; to Unity, one of Hitler's cronies; and to Deborah, who became Duchess of Devonshire.
		Miss Mitford was recovering from the loss of her first husband, Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill's nephew, who had been killed on a Canadian Air Force raid over Germany and with whom she had eloped to fight with the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.
	mitford.org /nyobit.html (667 words)

	Jessica Mitford Papers, Biographical Sketch
		Born September 11, 1917, in Batsford, Gloucestershire, England, Jessica Mitford is one of the six daughters of the Baron of Redesdale.
		Although bitterly denounced by the industry itself, the book was Mitford's most successful and was used as the basis for a CBS television documentary, "The Great American Funeral." Mitford's second investigative study, THE TRIAL OF DR. SPOCK (1969), concludes with the observation that American conspiracy laws threaten citizens' civil rights.
		Mitford condemns sentencing procedures, the parole system, and the use of prisoners in psychological and physiological research.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/mitford.bio.html (371 words)

	Nancy Mitford
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		Unity Valkyrie Mitford (1914 – 1948), begeisterte Nationalsozialistin und berüchtigt für ihre Adolf Hitler-Verehrung, verkehrte in seinem persönlichen Umfeld und gehörte zur High-Society des NS-Regimes.
		Jessica Mitford (1917 – 1996), Schriftstellerin und die Kommunistin in der Familie, verheiratet zunächst mit Esmond Romilly einem Neffen von Winston Churchill, den sie während des Spanischen Bürgerkrieges in Spanien heiratete, und dann mit Robert Treuhaft, beide Anti-Faschisten.
	www.weblexikon.de /Nancy_Mitford.html (520 words)

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