![]() ![]() ![]() Writing to one another to confide, commiserate, tease, rage and gossip, the sisters wrote above all to amuse. ![]() Nancy, the scalding wit who transferred her family life into bestselling novels Pamela, who craved nothing more than a quiet country life Diana, the fascist jailed with her husband, Oswald Mosley, during WWII Unity, an attempted suicide, obsessed with Hitler Jessica, the runaway communist and fighter for social change and Deborah, the genial socialite who found herself Duchess of Devonshire. Spanning the twentieth century, these magically vivid letters between the legendary Mitford sisters constitute not just a superb social and historical chronicle (what other family counted among its friends Hitler and the Queen, Cecil Beaton and President Kennedy, Evelyn Waugh and Givenchy?) they also give an intimate portrait of the stormy but enduring relationship between six beautiful and gifted women who emerged from the same stock, incarnated the same indomitable spirit, yet carved out starkly different roles and identities for themselves. ![]() The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely gifted family. ![]()
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