Hons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir (W&N Essentials)

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Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. The couple ran away to Spain to aid the cause of anti-fascism in the Spanish Civil War but were deported after the horrified Mitford parents pulled strings to get Jessica out of the war zone. Jessica Mitford (the fifth of the Mitford daughters) has brought a whole generation back to life in her autobiography. As far as Diana goes, Jessica doesn’t directly condemn her but she doesn’t become sentimental about her either (she says she was her favourite sister in childhood, but that after she married and became rich, she became more about appearances), so it seems they became distant. In 1940, after the war broke out, she was arrested for her ties to Hitler and would spend three years in prison, then remain under house arrest until the end of the war.

Rereading: Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford review — a

Debo spent silent hours in the chicken house learning to do an exact imitation of the look of pained concentration that comes over a hen's face when it is laying an egg. She is to be the symbol of a bright and classless future, ‘growing up among the rough children of Rotherhithe Street, born to freedom and May Day parades, without the irksome restraints of nanny, governess, daily walks and dull dances’. It was not the kind of letter they were accustomed to receiving, and it was one that would make history. Tis now 12:30 on the first day I was to really work all day on the book,’ she reported to her husband and daughter in.In the windows, still to be seen, are swastikas carved into the glass with a diamond ring, and for every swastika a carefully delineated hammer and sickle. The Pursuit of Love tells the story of Linda, an aristocrat who grew up in a family quite like the Mitfords, only with fewer fascists, and her three love affairs: a disastrous marriage to a Nazi-leaning Tory banker; a likewise disastrous marriage to an aristocratic communist; and, at last, a great and scandalous love with an anti-fascist French duke.

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Such was Unity’s fascination with Adolf Hitler that, in 1933, she traveled to Germany with the stated intention of learning German and meeting the then chancellor. The sort of thing we found in Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love– with the hons in the cupboard, the father hunting the children, and the various codes. The first half of Hons and Rebels details Jessica’s experiences growing up in an isolated country house, surrounded only by her family and educated at home. Here, after a bitterly acrimonious battle with both their families, they were finally allowed to marry, in a brief ceremony on 18 May 1937, at the British consulate in Bayonne.Nevertheless, despite disapproving of myself for doing so, I must confess I enjoyed The Mitford Girls enormously. I devoured this 1960 memoir at 15, a perpetually bored only child fascinated by big, eccentric families with their micro-culture of private jokes and made-up language.

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There are some pretty extraordinary descriptions of Decca and Unity setting up their shared bedroom into a Fascist and Communist split, with posters advocating their own politics on either side. 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.Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. The collection of letters between Nancy and Evelyn is one of my favourite books of all time, and I think would be an ideal desert island book ie something that would endlessly entertain you.