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	Jessica Mitford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, known to friends and family as Decca (September 11, 1917 - July 22, 1996), self-described muckraker and political radical, was one of the noted Mitford sisters, daughters of David Bertram Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, the 2nd Baron Redesdale.
		Mitford and Treuhaft also became active members of the Communist Party and, in 1953, they were both summoned to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
		Jessica Mitford died of lung cancer, aged 78.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jessica_Mitford (813 words)

	Nancy Mitford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the end of the Second World War she moved to Paris, partly to be near French soldier and politician Colonel Gaston Palewski (Charles de Gaulle's Chief of Staff), whom she always called 'Colonel' and with whom she had a relationship in London during the war.
		Nancy Mitford was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and a Knight in the Legion of Honour in 1972.
		Her remains were brought home to England and are interred in the Swinbrook Churchyard in Oxfordshire with those of her younger sisters, Unity Mitford (1914-1948), Diana, Lady Mosley (1910-2003) and Jessica (1917-1996).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nancy_Mitford (357 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Jessica Mitford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		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.
		Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, known to friends and family as Decca (September 11, 1917 - July 22, 1996), self-described muckraker and political radical, was one of the noted Mitford sisters, daughters of the 2nd Baron Redesdale.
		She was the author of Hons and Rebels (1960), the first part of her autobiography covering her youth in the Mitford household, "A Fine Old Conflict" (1977), covering her years in America, The American Way of Death (1963), The Trial of Dr Spock (1970), and The Making of a Muckraker (1979).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jessica-Mitford (1986 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 55, No.4 - January 1999 - ARTICLE - Why Jessica Mitford Was Wrong
		Jessica, or "Decca" as she was known by her family and friends, was the most defiant of the "Mitford Girls." Though her father leaned toward fascism, Jessica ran away from home at age nineteen to fight fascists in Spain.
		Mitford saved her strongest invective for the custom of embalming, restoring, and viewing the body, which she claimed is virtually unknown outside of North America and which she saw as utterly unnecessary, yet another sign of American bad taste, and an expensive trick pulled by funeral directors to con the gullible.
		Mitford wrinkles her nose at all viewing of the dead, not only because she incorrectly identifies the practice as unquestionably vulgar and pagan but also because she has a poor feel for ritual action and she misunderstands the meaning of customs outside the narrow range of her ethnicity and class.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jan1999/v55-4-article1.htm (5450 words)

	Jessica Mitford Papers, Series Descriptions
		Jessica Mitford is best known for her first book, THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH, which exposes the abuses of the American funeral industry.
		Mitford's attorney husband, Robert Treuhaft, stimulated her interest in the funeral industry while defending some of its alleged victims in court.
		Because Mitford's files for THE TRIAL OF DR. SPOCK were acquired in a largely disorganized state, it was necessary to impose an order on this series of her papers, which follows the same organization as the other two.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/mitford.series.html (1642 words)

	Profits of Death: Newsletter 10/98
		Today, Mitford, who died in 1996, is still tormenting many of those same funeral directors, and through the wonders of publishing, she is managing to do it from the grave.
		While some of Mitford’s critics have argued she had no reason to duplicate her earlier book (several passages from the first book are used verbatim in the second), funerals continue to be one of the biggest expenses in the life (or death) of the average American.
		Mitford was not the least bit squeamish about describing the processes funeral directors use when embalming and preparing bodies for burial.
	www.profitsofdeath.com /98_newsletter10.htm (746 words)

	Jessica Mitford
		Jessica Mitford, the daughter of the 2nd Baron Redesdale, was
		Mitford's parents held right-wing political views and supported the British Union of Fascists and in 1936 their daughter, Diana Mitford, married its leader, Oswald Mosley.
		Mitford's involvement in the Willie McGee case resulted in her being subpoenaed by the California State Committee on Un-American Activities.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SPmitford.htm (3283 words)

	Mitford family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mitfords were an aristocratic British family noted for their accomplishments in writing and for their notorious lives, particularly of the daughters of the family who were known collectively as the Mitford sisters.
		Nancy Mitford (November 28, 1904 – June 30, 1973).
		Jessica Mitford (September 11, 1917 – July 22, 1996).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mitford_family (274 words)

	★ Reviews for Mitford,_Jessica
		Jessica, seemed less entombed in the Lord Redesdale family, although certainly unforgettably a Mitford, she took the greatest risks, and the most sensational, and committed the gravest offense, that being, emigration to America.
		Jessica, the second youngest of the family was born in 1917 and was in the second half of the family - Nancy, the eldest was born in 1904, so they were never really contemporaries.
		Mitford asks the question, "Is this [the present day funeral] what most people want for themselves and their families?" Once the question is asked she sets out to answer it and pose a few more in the process.
	authors.booksunderreview.com /M/Mitford,_Jessica (4085 words)

	Mitford
		This is but one of the surprises in the story of Jessica Mitford, who wrote the best-selling exposé The American Way of Death from her adopted home in a quiet neighborhood of Oakland, California.
		Mitford and her husband Robert Treuhaft began to investigate funeral industry practices, and she wrote ironically and in detail about the many unnecessary services the bereaved were sold at a time of their greatest vulnerability.
		Mitford joins this list not only for her look at the commodification of death but also the development of a birth industry (The American Way of Birth) and her investigation of prisons (Kind and Usual Punishment.) As teachers of English, there's a lot we can learn from her development as a writer.
	www.cateweb.org /CA_Authors/mitford.html (1291 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)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Jessica
		Mitford, Nancy MITFORD, NANCY [Mitford, Nancy] 1904-73, English novelist and biographer, b.
		Mitford was born into the British aristocracy, which she satirizes in her novels, notably In Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold
		Sarah Jessica's next step: the star's life is about to change in a big way.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Jessica (427 words)

	Mitford, Nancy - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		MITFORD, NANCY [Mitford, Nancy] 1904-73, English novelist and biographer, b.
		Mitford was born into the British aristocracy, which she satirizes in her novels, notably In Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love in a Cold Climate (1949).
		Newly-declassified MI5 files have revealed that Nancy Mitford informed the security services that her sister Diana, wife of Fascist leader Oswald Mosley, was 'dangerous' and 'sincerely desires the downfall of England and democracy generally and should not be released'.(News)(Brief Article)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MitfordN1.asp (522 words)

	Jessica Mitford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		She emigrated to the United States of America from England after having run away as a girl to join the Republican forces in Spain and adhered to communism.
		Jessica Mitford's memoirs of life in the communist party are much funnier than you'd have any reason to think they'd be.
		while mitford claimed that funeral directors prey on and profit from the grief of survivors, she, like most so-called muckrakers, preyed on and profited from the fears of ignorant consumers who would believe anything in print.
	www.freeglossary.com /Jessica_Mitford (475 words)

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		Jessica Mitford will be remembered mainly for her muckraking journalism—especially her splashy premier in that genre, The American Way of Death, which skewered the money-grubbing funeral industry.
		Jessica embraced Communism and eloped to Spain with her cousin Edmond Romilly at age 19 to fight the Fascists.
		Jessica was written out of her father's will, and the couple emmigrated to the United States in 1939.
	www.panix.com /~scmiller/goodbye/jul/mitford.htm (1479 words)

	Jessica thumbs her nose - Jessica Mitford at California State University at San Jose - first printed in Winter, 1974-75 ...
		When I first met Jessica Mitford - in 1973 just after she had been fired from her job as a professor of sociology at San Jose State - I used to wonder how the wealthy, manor-born, imperious Jessica ever came to be teaching at a lumpen prole place like San Jose State.
		It is mid-December, the beginning of the Christmas recess at San Jose State, and Jessica Mitford has been informed that, at the close of the present semester, she will not be rehired as Distinguished Professor of Sociology, which job she has held since September.
		With the exception of an ornate 18th century French clock on the dining room mantelpiece, the downstairs area of Jessica's brown, two-story frame house on Regent Street in Oakland is, for a person of her natural flamboyance, rather modest and staid.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1254/is_n3_v26/ai_15693062 (771 words)

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	Etude \| Autumn 2004 \| The American Way of Death - Jessica Mitford
		Mitford took on not only funeral homes, with their unnecessary embalmers, unctuous funeral directors and unnervingly overpriced products (coffins that cost a few dollars to make were routinely sold for hundreds of dollars), but greedy real-estate speculators, cemetery owners, casket makers, vault manufacturers, monument builders and florists.
		Long despised, naturally, by those in the funeral industry, Mitford was also attacked for her Communism (she was a card-carrying member in the 1940s and 1950s) and for what many saw as her blanket dismissal of an entire industry.
		But Mitford cared less for history and her critics than for whether she was able to stimulate change by embarrassing the establishment.
	etude.uoregon.edu /autumn2004/books/death.html (637 words)

	Mitford Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		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.
		Nancy Mitford's magnificent biography of Louis XIV is also an illuminating examination of France in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
		Mitford finds the funeral industry infested with corruption, price-fixing, and outright fraud, and she writes scathingly of those who profit from it.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Mitford (842 words)

	PAGE ONE -- Celebrated Muckraker Jessica Mitford Dies
		Jessica Mitford, a muckraking journalist whose work inspired a generation of writers and political activists, died yesterday of cancer at her Oakland home.
		Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford was born Sept. 11, 1917, in Gloucestershire, England.
		Mitford is survived by her husband; her daughter, Constancia Romilly of New York City; her son, Benjamin Treuhaft of Berkeley; two sisters, Diana of Paris and Deborah of Chatsworth, England; and three grandchildren.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/07/24/MN56489.DTL (1387 words)

	Jessica Mitford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		'''Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford''', (September 11, 1917 - July 22, 1996), was one of the noted Mitford sisters, daughters of the second Baron Redesdale.
		She emigrated to the United States of America from England, after having run away with her second cousin, Esmond Romilly, a nephew of Winston Churchill to join the Republican forces in Spain.
		She was an adherent of communism, despite her privileged background, and was of course the sister of well-known Hitler supporters Unity and Diana Mitford.
	jessica-mitford.area51.ipupdater.com (186 words)

	Jessica_Mitford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		In 1960 Mitford published her first book ''Hons and Rebels'' (aka ''Daughters and Rebels''), an autobiography covering her youth in the Mitford household and her first marriage.
		After the riot, Mitford proceeded on to a rally at a church lead by Martin Luther King, Jr.
		This too was attacked by the Ku Klux Klan and Mitford spent the night baracaded inside the church with the group until the violence was ended by the National Guard.
	q-basic.xodox.de /Jessica_Mitford (809 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.
		Jessica, whose political bent ran opposite to that of her sisters, ran away to Loyalist Spain with her cousin, Esmond Romilly, during the Spanish Civil War.
		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)

	Hons and Rebels New York Review Books Classics by Jessica Mitford, Christopher Hitchens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Mitfords, the six daughters of Baron Redesdale, were inescapable fixtures of England's cultural life in the Thirties; as their mother noted, she needed only pick up a newspaper to see invariably a headline about "Peer's daughter" and she'd know one of them was in trouble.
		However, it is always a priveledge to see inside the Mitford family, especially from the point of view of someone who felt that she was an outsider in the family (whether that was actually true or not is up for discussion).
		Jessica fills in the details of her story, which has been told in other books, but this in her own words.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Hons-and-Rebels-New-York-Review-Books-Classics-1590171101.htm (990 words)

	The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford
		Mitford, daughter of English eccentrics and sister of the well-known novelist Nancy Mitford, attracted her first readers not only with shocking facts but with her fine ear for the ludicrous, brilliantly recorded funeral industry hyperboles and euphemisms.
		This edition of The American Way of Death, which was nearly complete when Mitford herself "passed over" in 1996, updates the book with chapters on prepayment and multinational funeral corporations, as well as revised statistics and a directory of not-for-profit funeral societies.
		Jessica Mitford's exposé of the funeral industry, a number one bestseller upon first publication, is a model of muckraking--an almost incredible description of how undertakers in the U.S. assault people's souls and wallets.
	www.johnholleman.com /win/amerdeath.html (492 words)

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