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		In his retelling, Mitford ends the story by stating that the legend paints a "picture of fierce heroism which it is impossible not to admire" (Mitford 37).
		Mitford also creates a dramatic ending to Kira's life, as he adds a battle between Kira's top swordsmen and Ôishi's son Chikara after Kira is discovered in his hiding place.
		Mitford also seems genuinely interested in the story of the loyal retainers, as he visits Sengakuji (which he actually lived near during his years in Japan), and examines relics pertaining to the forty-seven retainers.
	www.columbia.edu /~hds2/chushinguranew/retelling/Mitford.htm (961 words)

	Mitford family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mitfords were an aristocratic British family who first achieved notoriety for their controversial and stylish lives as young people, and later for their very public political divisions between communist and fascist.
		The six daughters of the family were known collectively as the Mitford sisters; two became well-known writers and another managed one of the most successful stately homes in England.
		The Mitford sisters (and their one brother) grew up in an aristocratic country house set-up not unusual for its time, with a tradition of noblesse oblige, emotionally distant parents, a large household with many servants, and a disregard for formal education.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mitford_family (554 words)

	Mitford
		The work grew out of her husband's observation that, in working with families of union employees, he noticed that the costs of funerals always matched the amount of the union death benefit-whether that was $1000 or $3000.
		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)

	Nancy Mitford
		Nancy Mitford was born November 28, 1904 in London, England, part of an aristocratic family.
		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.
		Her remains were brought home to England and interred in the Swinbrook Churchyard, Oxfordshire, England with her youngest sister, Unity Mitford (1914-1948).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/na/Nancy_Mitford.html (96 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Mitford,
		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).
		The (almost) golden girls: a new book about the famously gifted Mitford sisters suggests that beauty, charm, money, talent and titles are not all they're cracked up to be.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Mitford, (534 words)

	Untitled
		One of seven children born into an aristocratic British family, Mitford, or "Decca," as she was known to her friends, was a late arrival to the world of letters, publishing her first book when she was 39.
		Mitford's sense of humor was sharpened by an unhappy childhood, including a mother who refused to send her to school because she believed that girls did not require an education.
		Mitford is survived by her husband, Bob Truehaft; her son, Benjamin, of Berkeley; two sisters and three grandchildren.
	www.spj.org /norcal/link/mitford.html (918 words)

	Jessica Mitford
		Mitford went to work for Office of Price Administration (OPA) where she met the radical lawyer, Robert Treuhaft, who she married in 1943.
		Mitford's involvement in the Willie McGee case resulted in her being subpoenaed by the California State Committee on Un-American Activities.
		The Family Means Test, under which the dole could be denied any unemployed worker whose relatives still held jobs, was the subject of violent protest by the Communists, who gradually succeeded in swinging most of the labour movement into the fight.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SPmitford.htm (3283 words)

	CVCO - Overbooked: The Mitford Family Booklist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		Among the six daughters and one son born to Lord and Lady Redesdale were Nancy, the novelist and historian; Diana, the wife of fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, friend of Hitler; Jessica, a communist-turned-investigative journalist; and Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire.
	www.overbooked.org /booklists/subjects/themes/mitfords.html (846 words)

	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)

	Molly Ivins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Decca Mitford was chiefly known to the world for her extraordinary life and her semi-immortal panning of the funeral industry in "The American Way of Death".
		Mitford was hot on the trail of the story of the concentration of ownership in what the funeral industry now calls the "death-services industry." Service Corp.
		Mitford's expose made her such a target of the "death-services industry" that its trade publications, such as Casket and Sunnnyside, referred to her simply as "Jessica." "Famous by first name only," she murmured of this phenomenon, "rather like Madonna."
	www.mitford.org /ivins.htm (598 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre Book Club: KCTS Primetime
		The Nancy Mitford novels The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate are a high-spirited and classic 1930s story which captures the coming of age of three young women.
		Nancy Mitford closely modeled the characters in the Radlett family on her parents and sisters.
		Mitford's novels are classified as satire, a literary style that uses humor, exaggeration and irony to expose and criticize human failures or vices.
	www.kcts.org /primetime/features/bookclub/love/index.asp (605 words)

	Mitford sisters' world, The Radical Society - Find Articles
		The Mitfords were a one-generation British dynasty whose name was synonymous with a curious combination of frivolity and serious political commitment, one of those ruling-class families whose lives and progeny were larger and more dramatic than ordinary people's.
		These fantasy families are better-looking, tighter-knit versions of our own families (happy or not), like the people at a party laughing loudly at in-jokes they'd be happy to explain but you could never possibly understand.
		Lovell's group biography of the Mitford sisters retells the jokes but, alas, cannot possibly explain them, because she, too, is on the outside.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4053/is_200204/ai_n9060749 (788 words)

	Berkshire History: Biographies: Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1865)
		Mary Russell Mitford was the only child of George Mitford, a descendant of an ancient Northumberland family, and of Mary Russell, an heiress, the only surviving child of Dr. Richard Russell, a richly beneficed clergyman, who held the livings of Overton and Ashe, both in Hampshire, for more than sixty years.
		William Harness, who knew the family well, and was Miss Mitford's lifelong friend, heartily disliked him and called him "a detestable old humbug" but his many failings never succeeded in alienating the affections of his wife and daughter.
		By March 1820, Dr. Mitford's irregularities had reduced his family to the utmost poverty and it was necessary for Mary to turn to literature for their means of livelihood.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /bios/mrmitford.html (1831 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.
		The Mitfords are a well-known English family with a reputation for eccentricity.
		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)

	SeniorNet: SeniorNet Readers' Guides
		This family biography describes the ultimately tragic effects of competing ideologies - Communist, Royalist, Fascist - on a twentieth-century English family and traces the family's ancestry and fate, epoch by epoch, from 1894 to 2000.
		House of Mitford : Portrait of a Family by Jonathan and Catherine Guinness (1985) (Jonathan is Diana's older son)
		Accounts of the Mitford family were also written by Jonathan Guiness, Diana's oldest son from her brief marriage to Brian Guinness; and Charlotte Mosley, the wife of Alexander Mosley, Diana's oldest son with Sir Oswald, has edited two volumes of Nancy's correspondence : one of these containing exclusively her letters to Evelyn Waugh.
	www.seniornet.org /php/readerguide.php?GuideID=29&Version=0&Font=0 (1235 words)

	theage.com.au - The Age -
		The eldest was Nancy, funny and forthright, with a sharp and sometimes cruel wit.
		Tom Mitford, the only brother, asked to be transferred from the war against Germany to the Pacific zone because he didn't mind killing Japanese.
		Yet he too, with his insistence that all foreigners were "sewers", must have contributed to the racist views of his wife and son and at least two of his daughters.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/03/04/1014705022216.html (754 words)

	New York Times
		Jessica Mitford, whose book "The American Way of Death" won her enormous popularity as an irreverent muckraker and witty polemicist, died yesterday at her home in Oakland, Calif. She was 78.
		Over the more than three decades that she wrote nonfiction, Miss Mitford railed against those who tried to suppress dissent over the Vietnam War, against a prison system she found to be corrupt and brutalizing, and against a medical profession she thought was greedy and given to unnecessary procedures.
		Jessica Mitford was born on Sept. 11, 1917, at Batsford Mansion in Gloucestershire, England, one of seven children and the youngest daughter born to Lord Redesdale (David Mitford) and Lady Redesdale, the former Sydney Bowles.
	www.mitford.org /nytimes.htm (950 words)

	Open Writing: The Mitford Family
		Eldest of the family and possibly the best remembered by her public, Nancy Mitford was the author of the delicately crafted comic masterpieces, Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love.
		The family hated the house, and renamed it "Swinebrook", claiming that it was cold, draughty, and didn't have a single warm room.
		A family friend who established an immediate rapport with the precocious Nancy, he was a popular society host, musician, painter and writer.
	www.openwriting.com /archives/2005/06/the_mitford_fam.php (3223 words)

	Girls in pearls: the legendary Mitfords \| LRB essay \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		The infamous Mitfords - Diana the fascist, Decca the communist, Unity the Nazi, Debo the duchess, Nancy the novelist and rural Pam - remain objects of fascination for biographers and historians.
		Fans of Nancy Mitford have her novels, her journalism, her delightfully spiteful biographies and two vast volumes of correspondence to sustain them, the latter brilliantly annotated by Charlotte Mosley; as well as Selina Hastings's clear-sighted, of-the-milieu biography.
		A visitor to Swinbrook, the family home, reported that the second anyone put their foot through the door, Decca and Unity would appear, demanding: "Are you a Fascist or a Communist?" When this particular guest answered, "Neither - I'm a democrat," they sniffed in unison, "How wet!" and wandered off.
	books.guardian.co.uk /lrb/articles/0,6109,623207,00.html (2307 words)

	Mitford, Nancy - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Indeed, her boring, bigoted, illiterate lords and amoral, irresponsible ladies have taken on the qualities of myth.
		Bibliography: See her autobiography, Daughters and Rebels (1960), and her memoirs of her early days as a Communist, A Fine Old Conflict (1977); see also J. Guinness, House of Mitford (1984), and M. Lovell, The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family (2002).
		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 /doc/1E1-mitfordn.html (515 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family: Books: Mary S. Lovell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Nancy with her 'teases' was perhaps the most outrageous within the family, but publically there was the divorce of Diana in the 1930's followed by her seemingly long affair with Moseley (the leader of the British Fascists) and her later marriage and unapologetic support for him and their cause.
		The family seem to have an inordinate amount of charm, shart intellegence and wit which was present from their childhood.
		The family was so dominated in the early 20th century by six sisters that it's easy to overlook that there was also a son among the siblings.
	www.amazon.com /Sisters-Saga-Mitford-Family/dp/0393010430 (2518 words)

	GENUKI: Mitford, Northumberland Genealogy
		"MITFORD, a parish partly in the west division of Morpeth Ward, and partly in the west division of Castle Ward, comprehends the townships of Benridge, Edington, High and Low Highlaws, Mitford, Molesdon, Newton Park, Newton Underwood, Nunriding, Pigdon, Spittle Hill, and Throphill.
		The 1851 Census Index (microfiche CN21) published by the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society may be of value to researchers interested in this parish.
		Mitford Parish was part of Morpeth Poor Law Union.
	www.genuki.bpears.org.uk /NBL/Mitford (362 words)

	Powell's Books - The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate: Two Novels (Vintage International) by Nancy Mitford
		Nancy Mitford's most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, satirize British aristocracy in the twenties and thirties through the amorous adventures of the Radletts, an exuberantly unconventional family closely modelled on Mitford's own.
		Mitford's wickedly funny prose follows these characters through misguided marriages and dramatic love affairs, as the shadow of World War II begins to close in on their rapidly vanishing world.
		Nancy Mitford (1904-1973) was born in London, the eldest of Lord Redesdale's seven children.
	powells.com /biblio?isbn=0375718990 (321 words)

	Senior Women Web > Culture & Arts > Culture Watch
		Descendants of the Earl of Airlie, the six Mitford girls were born between 1906 and 1920.
		The girls' father was briefly attracted to fascism, but young Unity Mitford actually fell in love with Hitler during the year she spent studying German in Munich.
		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.
	www.seniorwomen.com /ca/cw/02/cult040402.html (903 words)

	New Statesman - Hitler-fanciers
		After all, the Mitfords have been quite good at publicising themselves and, in addition to their own autobiographies, there has been no shortage of material from others, not least Nicholas Mosley's tormented work of semi-fiction about his father, Oswald Mosley.
		Nancy Mitford's fictional evocations of her parents and their brood of daughters in the Cotswolds have survived as very good comic novels.
		Given that, between them, the Mitfords have known many of the most interesting people of the 20th century, any account of the family will cast an extraordinary, and almost always very funny, light on the period.
	www.newstatesman.com /200109240047 (882 words)

	NYRB Classics: Hons and Rebels
		Jessica Mitford (1917–1996) was the daughter of Lord and Lady Redesdale, and she and her five sisters and one brother grew up in isolation on their parents' Cotswold estate.
		A family portrait, a tale of youthful folly and high-spirited adventure, a study in social history, a love story, Hons and Rebels is a delightful contribution to the autobiographer's art.
		Jessica Mitford (the fifth of the Mitford daughters) has brought a whole generation back to life in her autobiography....She tells the whole story of her rebellion...with engaging frankness and a spirited, often humorous, enthusiasm.
	www.nybooks.com /shop/product?product_id=4154 (638 words)

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