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	Masterpiece Theatre \| Love in a Cold Climate \| Essays + Interviews \| The Mitford Sisters
		The eldest of the seven children of David Mitford and Sydney Bowles, Nancy was born in London in 1904.
		Sister number two, Pamela (1907-1994), was the least rebellious of the older girls.
		She so enjoyed herself and amused her sisters that later, when she greeted everyone with the Nazi salute, they regarded it for a time as another one of her pranks.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/climate/ei_sisters.html (1958 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)

	Mitford, Nancy - MSN Encarta
		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).
		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 /encyclopedia_701702267/Mitford_Nancy.html (522 words)

	Mitford
		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.
		The older sisters were taught French, piano, and dancing until their mother learned of a new movement, the Parents' National Education Union, which promoted a basic curriculum taught in the home to female children of the aristocracy.
	www.cateweb.org /CA_Authors/mitford.html (1291 words)

	Straight From The Fridge: The Mitford Legacy
		Unity Mitford moved to Bavaria to be nearer to the Fuhrer, after being enthused by the Nuremberg Rallies with her other sister Diana (who fell in love with, and eventually married Oswald Moseley, Leader of the UK Facist Black Shirt Movement).
		Her childhood and teenage years, though ostensibly happy and in the bosom of a close and loving family were plagued by the relentless and unfulfilled desire to gain a formal education.
		Her childhood differs from the older Mitford girls in a number of ways, she was allowed to attend school, though this didn't last terrifically long, and her upbringing was largely in one house.
	upbondageupyours.blogspot.com /2006/06/mitford-legacy.html (1705 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Catalog \| Decca by Jessica Mitford
		Like [her sister Nancy Mitford], she was a devoted correspondent, with a wide circle of friends, a mischievous sense of fun, and a vast appetite for life.
		Jessica Mitford was one of a clutch of children born to the eccentric Lord and Lady Redesdale.
		Jessica Mitford, for instance, second youngest of the Mitford sisters, known to her wide and varied circle of friends as Decca.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375410321 (2983 words)

	Jessica Mitford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though her sisters Unity and Diana were well-known British supporters of Hitler and her father was described as being "one of nature's fascists," Jessica renounced her privileged background at an early age and became an adherent of communism.
		Mitford's surviving daughter grew up to become an emergency room nurse, a counterpoint to her mother's self-declared uselessness at any practical occupation, and continued the activist tradition by marrying James Forman, the African American director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
		Mitford's surviving son, Benjamin, was estranged from his family for some time and developed bipolar disorder (manic depression), but later became a piano tuner and uses his skills to ship pianos to Cuba.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jessica_Mitford (1339 words)

	NY times Obit -Robert Treuhaft> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
	www.mitford.org /nyobit.html (667 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)

	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, (525 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.
		Of the Mitford sisters, Nancy achieved notoriety as a novelist and biographer.
		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)

	The Indomitable Jessica Mitford
		At the time, Mitford pointed out, it cost only about 40 cents to embalm a body, a peculiarly American tradition that Mitford showed to be more gruesome than necessary for the good of the public health.
		Mitford spread the word of her firing to fellow faculty members and to her students, who held passionate rallies.
		Her position was eventually restored after a triumphant day in court, and Mitford resumed proudly passing her wisdom along to the next generation of hellraisers and muckrakers.
	www.theatlantic.com /doc/200610u/jessica-mitford (1298 words)

	New York Times
		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.
		One of Miss Mitford's five sisters, Pamela, aspired as a child to be a horse.
	www.mitford.org /nytimes.htm (950 words)

	Mitford sister who befriended Hitler dies, aged 93 - theage.com.au
		Born the fourth of seven children of David Mitford, the 2nd Baron Redesdale, she was part of an extraordinary family.
		The eldest of the six sisters was novelist Nancy Mitford, whose early books, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, were based on her own eccentric childhood.
		Unity Mitford was an ardent Nazi sympathiser before the war and a friend of Hitler, whom she introduced to Diana.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/08/13/1060588457054.html (569 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.
		Lovell's group biography of the Mitford sisters retells the jokes but, alas, cannot possibly explain them, because she, too, is on the outside.
		Being scandalous and well documented certainly contributed to the fascination with the Mitford sisters, who belonged first to the celebrated realm of the Bright Young Things-the British Jazz babies with a similar bent for all-night parties and quotable slang-and then to the harsh days of World War II and the nostalgic Anglophilia that followed.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4053/is_200204/ai_n9060749 (788 words)

	The New Yorker : critics : books
		Mitford’s real destination was war-torn Spain, which she intended to reach after eloping with her second cousin Esmond Romilly, a nephew of Winston Churchill’s who had achieved a precocious stardom through both his flamboyant rebellion against British public-school culture and his later service with the International Brigade defending Madrid.
		Mitford’s natural leftward leanings were no doubt overstimulated by the “very lonely opposition” she had maintained within her family’s feathered nest.
		Mitford assessed herself, accurately, as being “not a specially introspective type.” She “never felt ‘let down’ ” by anyone, and, as much as she took to America, she found the “pursuit of happiness” to be “an absurd idea.” Nonetheless, she found it, in the knockabout company of enemies and friends alike.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books/articles/061016crbo_books1 (2265 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Tome Raider: Love in a Cold Climate
		One of the six beautiful Mitford sisters whose scandalous lives dominated British tabloids for decades, the author writes with an insider’s knowledge of society gossip.
		The six Mitford sisters captivated the British public during the 1930s and 1940s with their wild exploits.
		The Mitford sisters live on as larger-than-life icons of the inbred British aristocracy, as the obsession with the siblings still continues today.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=512867 (629 words)

	Shrieks
		By that time, Jessica Mitford had published her expose, 'The American Way of Death,' but I was not particularly interested in current affairs in those days, nor in muckraking, and so saved a treasure for my middle age (I've got a copy of the revised, posthumous edition in my legenda).
		Each of the sisters except Pam is the subject of biography or autobiography, and the political career of Sir Oswald Mosley, Diana's second husband and the leader of the British Union of Fascists, has caused much ink to be spilled and probably remains to be settled.
		Jessica Mitford wrote elsewhere of a childhood of endless sulking, but she certainly grew up to be a woman of enormous good cheer, and The American Way of Death Revisited is vibrant with this virtue.
	www.portifex.com /ReadingMatter/shrieks.htm (8160 words)

	The myth of the Mitfords \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lady Diana Mosley, last but one of the Mitford sisters, died this week, her unrepentant fascism and admiration of Hitler still causing controversy.
		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.
		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 /g2/story/0,3604,1018183,00.html (915 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 most thoroughly 'English' of the sisters she is the author of several books, dealing with the treasures of Chatsworth, or country matters.
		As Nancy's sister Diana Mosley said of him in her book "The Loved Ones", 'Clever, talented, witty, original and private-spirited, Gerald Berners was the best companion as well as the most loyal friend anyone could be lucky enough to have'.
	www.openwriting.com /archives/2005/06/the_mitford_fam.php (3213 words)

	New Statesman - Hitler-fanciers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		John Betjeman, who was in love with her and wished to marry her, called her "the most rural of the Mitford sisters".
	www.newstatesman.com /200109240047 (882 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
		The Radletts of Alconleigh occupy the heights of genteel eccentricity, from terrifying Lord Alconleigh (who, like Mitford's father, used to hunt his children with bloodhounds when foxes were not available), to his gentle wife, Sadie, their wayward daughter Linda, and the other six lively Radlett children.
		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.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0375718990 (187 words)

	Nancy Mitford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She is one of the noted Mitford sisters and the first to publicise the extraordinary family life of her very English and very eccentric family, giving rise to a "Mitford industry" which continues to roll on.
		Nancy Mitford's public persona was remarkable: she was invariably elegantly dressed (often by Dior or Lanvin), she lived a hectic social life, and was a well-known public personality in the United Kingdom even though she lived in Paris.
		Nancy Mitford was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and a Knight in the Legion of Honour in 1972; it was Palewski who formally invested her, presenting her with the decoration when she was already dying.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nancy_Mitford (834 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)

	Daily Blague: Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
		One of my sisters in England also has FAX (much to my amazement) so naturally I sent her one straight away.
		Jessica Mitford Treuhaft, the fifth of the six Mitford sisters, American firebrand (and even a member of the Communist Party for a while) died a little over ten years ago, on 23 July 1996.
		With two of England's most notorious anti-Semites among her sisters, and a family that breathed low-grade anti-Semitism without thinking about it, Decca had done just about everything that she could to alienate her family.
	www.portifex.com /DailyBlague/archives/2006/11/decca_the_lette.html (657 words)

	Mitford, Nancy - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Indeed, her boring, bigoted, illiterate lords and amoral, irresponsible ladies have taken on the qualities of myth.
		How Mitford sisters were divided over Nancy's biographer
		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)

	The lives of the Mitford Sisters
		The Mitfords' unconventional childhood and adolescence, growing up in a rambling country manor, deprived of formal education and at the mercy of their father's titanic rages and obsessions, has long been immortalised in Nancy's masterly comedies of aristocratic manners, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate.
		And at their dark heart, beloved but unstable Unity, in love with Hitler and obsessed with Nazism, who shot herself as war was declared.
		"This is a book that will educate those who hope to understand the Mitfords' hold on the imagination of an entire era and entertain those who enjoy an upper-class family saga.
	www.lovellbiographies.com /themitfordgirls/themitfordgirls.html (317 words)

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